“Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let's say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a secret he's held as long as he can remember. Soon, perhaps, he will decide it's time to let that secret out. What happens next depends on him, his family, as well as his friends and his teachers and his community. But it also depends on us - on the kind of society we engender, the kind of future we build.” MenWellsKindPersonsLongHappensAmericaRememberYoungFallNextCommunitySleepSecretStruggleTeacherDependsYoung ManTonightWrestling Author:Barack Obama
“I can see others in the sunlight; I can see our boats' crews and our athletic young men on the glistening water, or speckled with the moving lights of sunlit leaves; but I myself am always in the shadow looking on. Not unsympathetically, - God forbid! - but looking on alone, much as I looked at Sylvia from the shadows of the ruined house, or looked at the red gleam shining through the farmer's windows, and listened to the fall of dancing feet, when all the ruin was dark that night in the quadrangle.” MenI CanLightMovingYoungNightFallHouseWaterNatureDarkFeetShadowRedWindowDancingShiningBoatRuinsYoung ManFarmersSunlightCrewRuinedAthleticGleamShining Through Book:Hard Times (And Other Stories) Source: Hard Times (And Other Stories)
“There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about, and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.” IfsMenMindMayPersonsSometimesFeelingsYoungFallKnownYouthSucceedDown AndCastsYoung ManInjuryInjured Book:The Complete Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln Source: The Complete Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
“Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and his sister's friends can't or won't. But the youth who marries her, expecting that all her departures from convention will be as agile or as delightful to him as that, is still the classic example of folly.” KnowsMenStillsYoungFallGirlMarriageExampleYouthFalling In LoveYoung ManClassicKicksFollyHatsConventionsExpectingDelightfulDepartureChorusConventionalityHats Off Book:Modes and Morals Source: Modes and Morals