“The promise of learning is a delusion.... Tomorrow would alter the sense of what had already been learned, that the learning process is extended in this way, so that from this standpoint none of us ever graduates from college, for time is an emulsion, and probably thinking not to grow up is the brightest kind of maturity for us, right now at any rate.” ThinkingWayKindGrowsProcessGrowing UpCollegeTomorrowPromiseRight NowRateMaturityDelusionGraduatesStandpointLearning Process Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“Hip-hop is the fountain of youth. You just don't grow up if you were there. My son's 20. I'm on the same channel he's on. We wear the same clothes, we feel the same thing. It's a weird, weird generation we're in right now.” IfsFeelsGrowsGrowing UpGenerationsYouthSonRight NowClothesHip HopHipsHopsMy SonFountainFountain Of Youth Author:Ice T
“I'm really sorry for people growing up right now, because they have some cockeyed idea that they can get by with their eyes closed; the cane they're tapping is money, and that won't take them in the right direction.” PeopleIdeasEyeGrowing UpGrowingRight NowSorryRight DirectionTapping Book:Conversations with Grace Paley Source: Conversations with Grace Paley
“Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?” PeopleWantYoungGivenGrowsGrowing UpAdviceRight NowAdultsEncouragementMeaningfulMeaningful Life Author:Adora Svitak
“I remember somebody saying, "I feel really bad for kids growing up around iPads right now. It's just too complicated. Life's too complicated." I think, yeah, but I remember being a kid and holding up a new piece of technology that was made in the '80s and my grandparents going, "Oh, it's too complicated." It didn't seem complicated to me.” ThinkingFeelsMadeSeemsKidsRememberTechnologyGrowing UpPiecesGrowingRight NowYeahComplicatedGrandparent80sIpadsKids Growing UpBeing A KidComplicated Life Author:Dan Mangan
“This time, we're living in such a crazy moment in history. People still write and talk about Watergate, which was such a huge, looming backdrop when I was coming of age and when I was a kid growing up. I think we're living in one of those times right now where, in 20 years, people will be writing and talking about it.” PeopleThinkingWritingYearsStillsMomentsKidsAgeTalkingGrowing UpGrowingCrazyHugeRight NowComing Of AgeWatergateKids Growing UpBackdropLooming Author:Patterson Hood
“New York has changed a whole lot. For worse I think because back when I was growing up in New York we were always the trendsetters. I don't care if it was from clothes to hip-hop music, to whatever. Right now New York is a bunch of followers. A lot of them are. It's really not the same.” IfsThinkingWholeCareGrowing UpGrowingNew YorkChangedRight NowClothesHip HopDon't CareBunchHipsI Don't CareHopsFollowersBack WhenHip Hop Music Author:Phife Dawg
“I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I've been lost many times in my life, and I've had to have someone guide me back on the right path.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayNeedsImportantKidsLostRolesGrowing UpPathGrowingRight NowModelsGuidesRole ModelsRight PathGuide Me Author:Jeremy Lin