Arrogance Quote by James Robertson

“The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one.”

James Robertson

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Arrogance Break Different Different place Exciting Generations Grandparent Guilty Mother Parent Parenting Parents and grandparents Serious Strong Suffering Wanted World Youth

More by James Robertson

Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

James Robertson

Image

The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.

James Robertson

Image

I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.

James Robertson

Image

“But I do like Scotland. I like the miserable weather. I like the miserable people, the fatalism, the negativity, the violence that's always just…

James Robertson

Image

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

James Robertson

Image

Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse;…

James Robertson

Image

[M]ost people go through life a wee bit disappointed in themselves. I think we all keep a memory of a moment when we missed…

James Robertson

Image

It might be tough, but my dad used to say, tough times don't last — tough people do.

James Robertson

Image

“People think we didn't have theatres in Scotland for centuries because the Church suppressed them. Well, perhaps. But you could also argue that we…

James Robertson

Image

There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is.

James Robertson

Image

“Walking through a deserted city in the hours before dawn is sobering way beyond the undoing of the effects of alcohol. Every thing is…

James Robertson

Image

When we're in the story, when we're part of it, we can't know the outcome. It's only later that we think we can see…

James Robertson

Image

Explore all 17 James Robertson quotes

More Arrogance quotes

Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to…

Thomas Huxley

Image

wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no…

Lucille Clifton

Image

The structure of the Swiss ruling class is rock-hard, and unchanged since the time of Napoleon. They sit on their mountains and lecture the…

Jean Ziegler

Image

What you see of me on TV and all of that, that is me - that's truly how I feel. I'm just multiplying it.…

Baron Corbin

Image

I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying…

Noam Chomsky

Image

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart,…

Ezra Taft Benson