“We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age Are they withered in the sod?” AgeWaterCuttingAirChildhoodYouthPureSpringFairsSeedsSunnyInfancyWitheredMustardAlmondsSodMustard Seed Author:Charlotte Bronte
“There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The nervous system has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth.” IfsFeelsYearsWellsHas BeensAgeLostCuttingYouthPeriodsQuietPainfulNervousSensitiveMatureReposeNervous SystemTolerableSteadiness Author:William Hazlitt
“Both Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa had a superstition, however, that he would have declared his passion, if he had not been cut short in his youth (at about sixty) by over-drinking his constitution, and over-doing an attempt to set it right again by swilling Bath water.” IfsFunnyPassionWaterCuttingMissingYouthHumorousConstitutionDrinkingSuperstitionsSixtyBathsLavinia Book:Charles Dickens Six Pack: Six Dickens Classics Source: Charles Dickens Six Pack: Six Dickens Classics
“When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice so that the whole affair would not be seen for what it was: a meaningless waste of millions of lives. Logically, if the flower of youth had been cut down in Flanders, the survivors were not the flower: the dead were superior to the traumatized living. In this way, the virtual destruction of a generation further increased the distance between the old and the young, between the official and the unofficial.” IfsWayWarWholeYoungSidesMillionsCuttingGenerationsSacrificeYouthFlowerWasteDestructionDistanceAffairMythSuperiorsOfficialsSurvivorMeaninglessBoth SidesWwiFlanders Author:Robert Hughes
“Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you "sell" only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience. The power of couple dancing and courtship, it's elegant, and you wouldn't realize America was once a nation of dancers and singers today. People of all races could dance and sing.” PeopleBodyAgeTodayAmericaCertainNationsRealizingRaceCuttingGenerationsMovementYouthCoupleSellsDancingJazzSingersCelebrateDancerElegantCourtshipOlder Generation Author:Wynton Marsalis
“My priority is inclusion and justice. We need a system of justice that is applied across the board. That is what this country is striving for. We've suffered from a variety of exclusions. In the past, I compared our situation to a person with scissors who first cut the sleeve, then the fingers, then our body politic to pieces. My job is to stitch the wounds together. We need an agenda of inclusion: the youth, the women, the poor feel an enormous sense of exclusion.” CountryTogetherPastJusticePoorSituationCuttingYouthStriveWoundsPrioritiesVarietyInclusion Author:Ashraf Ghani
“I've realised that as long as the youth has the ability to use social media and their voice is there, people can actually cut through the nonsense and see what's really going on. People are live streaming from the ground, so everyone's starting to become more aware. When you pull back from this playground of duality, where someone is right and someone is wrong, you recognise that this is the way things have played out for years and years. And as long as the youth culture can see the madness that's going on in the world, there will eventually be a revolution.” PeopleWorldLongCultureAbilityCuttingYouthRevolutionMadnessSocial MediaNonsenseDualityStreaming Author:Craig David
“It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted. The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it; and fear with me became predominant when half an hour elapsed, and still I was alone.” WorldFeelsStillsFearHoursHalfCuttingYouthStrangeAdventurePrideConnectionsBoundsCharmSensationsUncertainPortImpedimentsInexperienceAdrift Book:Jane Eyre Source: Jane Eyre
“The god which the vast majority of professing Christians love is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself has no relish for folly, but leniently winks at the indiscretions of youth...For one sin God banished our first parents from Eden; for one sin all the posterity of Canaan fell under a curse which remains over them to this day; for one sin Moses was excluded form the promised land; Elisha’s servant smitten with leprosy; Ananias and Sapphira were cut off from the land of the living.” MenFirstsChristianFormParentSinLove IsCuttingLandYouthRemainsMajorityServantCurseFollyThis DayOld ManPosterityMosesEdenRelishExcludedPromised LandSmittenLeprosy Author:Arthur W. Pink
“Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees it as it really is, and cuts his throat. If this be so, I want to be very drunk. The great thing is to live, to clutch at our existence and race away with it in some great and enthralling pursuit. Above all, I must beware of all ultimate questions- they are too maddeningly unanswerable- let me eschew philosophy and burn Omar.” IfsMenWantLooksPhilosophyLife IsRaceExistenceCuttingYouthUltimateLet MeWinePursuitGreat ThingsDrunkThroatSoberIntoxicationClutchOmarDisenchantedUltimate Questions Book:The Journal of a Disappointed Man Source: The Journal of a Disappointed Man