“Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.” NextParentBreakRightsGenerationsHappenedYouthInvolvedPatternsCivil RightsAccustomedNext GenerationStood Up Author:Octavia Spencer
“The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.” WorldReasonChanceAtheismThis WorldYouthWoeAccustomedWovenCapricious Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil.” NeedsHandsFacesPoetryLandYouthPoetFoolAll ThingsDrivenCraftsDistractionOne TimeVersesToilAccustomedSeeming Book:Poems of William Butler Yeats Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats
“One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.” FoundLiteratureDifferencesYouthAccustomed Author:James Joyce
“I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.” FireYouthSoldierAccomplishedRestraintAccustomedDiplomats Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.” MenHas BeensViewsOpinionCasesYouthOppositesLikesAccustomed Book:Guide for the perplexed Source: Guide for the perplexed
“Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young.” ThinkingMenMadeReasonYoungForgetYouthInsightIntuitionVarietyOld ManDaringWiserAccustomedAccumulationAgilityQuickness Book:Pebble in the Sky Source: Pebble in the Sky