"Young people in my generation were sort of……" — John Knowles
"Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in the '50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out."
—
John Knowles
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
42 Quotes by John Knowles
John Knowles has 42 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.
-
Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun.…
-
This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood,…
-
Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.
-
It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the…
-
Looking back now across fifteen years I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must…
-
I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid…
-
All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought…
-
Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their…
-
We are all born equally far from the sun.
-
Gene, on the desire to be Finny: "I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of…
-
It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.
See all 42 quotes by John Knowles »
More Dropped Quotes
This quote is filed under Dropped Quotes,
one of 698 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment 'Roseanne' dropped out of the top ten, in…
— Roseanne Barr
-
I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.
— Lynda Barry
-
I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See…
— Kate Beckinsale
-
I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.
— Ben Affleck
-
I think God gave every one of us a cell phone, we just dropped it.
— Sylvia Browne
-
Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or…
— John Henrik Clarke
-
In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was…
— Louis Agassiz
-
They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the…
— Anna Louise Strong
-
Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children…
— Roger Moore
-
Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the…
— Olga Korbut
-
Tonight go to sleep as though your whole past has been dropped. Die to the past. And in the morning…
— Rajneesh
-
In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes…
— Leigh Steinberg
See all 698 Dropped Quotes »