“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
“You have the establishment and then you have the hippies revolting against the establishment, and what you end up getting are like accountants with long hair. And that's kind of what happened with the youth movement in the '70s.” KindLongEndsHappenedMovementYouthHairEstablishmentHippieAccountantsLong Hair Author:Mark Russell
“All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.” RealizingHappenedYouthThings HappenHeartbreakingHumiliatingGirlhood Book:Past imperfect Source: Past imperfect
“I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year after being a whole year in a coma. So I think that I changed and I became an elder at 50.” ThinkingYearsEndsWholeHappenedChangedYouthDaughterDiedThings HappenLife ChangingMy DaughterEldersComaMenopauseWhole Year Author:Isabel Allende
“The Sixties was a perfect storm of disaffection with political leaders trying to pass off the same old platitudes to maintain the status quo and an unexpected courageousness in the masses of youth. Nothing on this scale had ever happened before in U.S. history and it hasn't happened since.” TryingPoliticalPerfectLeaderHappenedYouthMassStormScalesUnexpectedSixtyStatus QuoPolitical LeadersPlatitudesPerfect Storm Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“And sure enough,the youth in question was not his usual dapper self. His face was puffy, his eyes red and wild; his shirt(distressingly unbuttoned)hung over his trousers in sloppy fashion. All very out of charactar: Mandrake was normally defined by his rigid self-control. Somthing seemed to have stripped all that away. Well, the poor lad was emotionally brittle.He needed sympathetic handling. "You're a mess," I sneered "You've lost it big time. What's happened? All the guilt and self-loathing suddenly get to you? It can't just be that someone else called me, surly?” WellsSelfEnoughBigsEyeFacesLostPoorHappenedFashionYouthNeededRedGuiltDefinedMessShirtsHis EyesUsualSelf ControlHungSympatheticLoathingLadSelf LoathingTrousersSloppySurlyDapper Author:Jonathan Stroud