1920s Quote by Mona Rodriguez Download Open image ““Why are you perpetuating a childhood you grew up despising?”” — Mona Rodriguez ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare 1920s Cafe-society Children Ellis island Hell-s-kitchen Immigration Italy Prohibition Statue of liberty Suffragist-movement Wwi
“When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things . . .” — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
“It turns out that the things I hated most as a child are the same things that serve me the most as an adult.” — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
“I always intended to grow up with my kids, not old with them.” — Trevor David Dawson Copy Share Image
“...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...” — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
“You were a child, you didn't mean to hurt my feelings. Children are ignorant. It takes an adult to choose to be cruel.” — Jan Strnad Copy Share Image
“I had been very grown-up when I was in primary school. But as I continued through secondary-school, I in fact became less grown-up. And… — Hiroki Kawakami Copy Share Image
“I was sick of my miserable childhood, too, the way it followed me across the Atlantic and kept nagging at me to be made… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“Is any childhood as terrible or as wonderful as we remember it to be?” — Monique Martin Copy Share Image
“Growing up wasn't so bad, as long as you did it with the right person.” — Monica Alexander Copy Share Image
“It’s finding out where we came from that helps guide us to where we are going.” — Mona Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high at the… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
“The prosecutor uttered the party line that would distinguish revue from burlesque for the next thirty years. "The difference is movement. On Broadway, unadorned… — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
“As I’ve said before, “the Mod generation”, contrary to popular belief, was not born in even 1958, but in the 1920s after a steady… — Ruadhán J. McElroy Copy Share Image
The United States created the best popular songs that were ever written, and from the 1920s to the 1940s, it was a renaissance period.… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar is anaerobically… — Hans Adolf Krebs Copy Share Image
“How paltry are the traces left behind by a life, even one concentrated around those supposed things of permanence called words. We spend our… — john darnton Copy Share Image
I've loved Alfred Cortot's playing from an early age, and I never tire of hearing his recordings, particularly Chopin and Schumann from the 1920s… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
France has had socialist presidents on and off since the 1920s, and it remains a free country. Socialists have ruled in many South American… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
“She's a self-conscious vampire ... and she goes about using sex as a sort of shrimping net.” — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
“But you just watch, little girl. I'm goin' to show 'em. In five years they'll come crawlin' to me on their bellies. I don't… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image