Home / Topics / Modern Quotes

Modern Quotes

Browse 5028 quotes about Modern.

Modern Quotes

“It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories ... to myself, to pen pals (I had a lot of them, all over the world). Of course this was in the days before computers were everywhere, and anyone could access the Web. You had to make an effort keeping up a correspondence, and the arrival of the mail once a day was a big deal. I think if modern technology had been around when I was a kid, I would never have left my bedroom except to take the dogs out for their run three times a day.”

“When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.”

Mean Children Said Kids Black Modern Mourning Riot Modern Society

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“I worry about kids today - because of the sexual revolution, they're going to grow up and never know what "dirty" means.”

Knows Mean Kids Today Grows Worry Growing Up Modern Revolution Dirty Modern Life Sexual Revolution

Author:Lily Tomlin

“They say kids today don't know the value of a dollar. They certainly do know the value of a dollar. That's why they ask for five.”

Knows Kids Today Values Asks Five Modern Dollars Modern Life

Author:Robert Orben

“My mom was always a big fan of Elvis. She made me listen to Elvis when I was a kid. I hated it. And I think now I've kind of grown up to fill in some of the sort of controversy that he created back in his day, but in a much more extreme, modern sense.”

Thinking Kind Made Bigs Kids Fans Modern Mom Extremes My Mom Hated Controversy

Author:Marilyn Manson

“I think in the modern world we really need to have movie theaters or places we can go in and rejuvenate ourselves. I think we'll have less problems with our souls and our health. I do that in my life, and I feel healthy and happy. I need those hours in the darkness where I used to spend time as a kid, sitting in a little closet in the darkness, listening to AM radio, having glowing paint that I illuminated, just sitting there, dreaming about anything, not being disturbed for an hour or two, just alone in the dark. I'm still that little boy in my brain.”

“Nobody is excused from the excellence trend. Babies are not excused. Starting right after they get out of the womb, modern babies are exposed to instructional flashcards designed to make them the best babies they can possibly be, so they can get into today's competitive preschools. Your eighties baby sees so many flashcards that he never gets an unobstructed view of his parents' faces. As an adult, he'll carry around a little wallet card that says "7x9=63," because it will remind him of mother.”

Children Littles Humor Kids Today Funny Faces Mother Parent Views Modern Baby Humorous Adults Excellence Starting Cards Trends Exposed Womb Eighty Wallets

Author:Dave Barry

“I have to keep myself in check when I go to the kids' sports events. I sit waaay in the back. I make sure I don't do too much cheering, you know what I mean? I'm still not quite adjusted to this modern school of thought: Oh, it doesn't matter who wins. I'm not all the way there yet, but I accept it from the back row.”

Knows Way Mean Stills Matter Kids School Winning Sports Accepting Too Much Modern Events Checks Cheer

Author:Jack Nicholson

“I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I reacted against writers like Barth and John Hawkes. I did not care for the post-modernist stuff; my allegiance was to realism.”

Care Kids Stuff Influence Modern Masters Posts Realism Allegiance

Author:Robert Stone

“I hate the modern day the kids live in. I don't think it's very cool. Everyone's interconnected.”

Thinking Kids Hate Modern I Hate Interconnected Modern Day Very Cool

Author:Taika Waititi

“The worst thing about this modern world is that people think you get killed on television with zero pain and zero blood. It must enter into kids' heads that it's not very messy to kill somebody, and it doesn't hurt that much. That's a real sickness to me. That's a real sick thing.”

People Thinking World Real Kids Pain Hurt Blood Modern Worst Television Sick Sickness Zero Worst Things Modern World Messy

Book:David Lynch: Interviews

Source: David Lynch: Interviews

“I was very prejudiced when I started arts school. I, like all of those kids, was like, "I don't like this modern stuff." I came to arts school with a very stupid, conservative set of ideas about art.”

Art Ideas Kids School Stuff Modern Stupid Conservative Art School Very Stupid Stupid Conservative

Author:Ragnar Kjartansson

“I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.”

Want Life Art Kids Age Used Modern Type Ambition Envy Old Fashioned Grandpa

Author:Hal Boyle

“What we've done with our modern food supply is absolute insanity. It's not even real any more. You used to be able to give a kid an apple and they would love it. Kids can't even taste apples any more. Apples taste like paper to kids now.”

Giving Real Done Kids Able Used Modern Taste Paper Absolutes Used To Be Insanity Apples Food Supply

Author:Louis C. K.

“There is part of me that longs to have the back-to-the-earth life - make my own bread, grow my own wheat, just be really self-sufficient - but I am not, at the moment, willing to give up the luxury of modern life, and amazing schools for my kids, and things that I've come to rely on that are parts of society.”

Giving Self Moments Kids School Earth Grows My Own Modern Willing Giving Up Bread Luxury Sufficient Rely Modern Life Wheat Self Sufficient Earth Life

Author:Lauren Groff