“Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.” PersonsHouseYouthPainfulFoolishnessObliged Author:Chanakya
“Why be thrifty when your old age and health care are provided for, no matter how profligate you act in your youth? Why be prudent when the state insures your bank deposits, replaces your flooded-out house, buys all the wheat you can grow? ... Why be diligent when half of your earnings are taken from you and given to the idle?” MatterStatesCareAgeHouseGivenGrowsHalfTakenYouthOld AgeHealth CareIdleEarningWheatPrudentDiligentDepositsThrifty Author:David Frum
“we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.” HeartEnoughHomeHouseParentFamilyYouthFit Book:Fanny Source: Fanny
“I reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces you to duck, to feel small and naive again, ready for anything, dying for love, your body a chimney filled with odd, black smoke. These square, squat, awkward rooms are like a fifty-square-foot paean to teenage-hood, to ripeness, to the first and last taste of youth.” FeelsFirstsBodyLastsHouseForceBlackRoomsHalfFeetDyingLove YouYouthReadyTasteFilledYour BodyTraditionalSmokeOddFiftySquaresDucksAwkwardBedroomTeenageNaiveHoodUpstairsCapesChimneysSmallnessSquatFirsts And LastsCape CodRipeness Author:Gary Shteyngart
“Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years.” ShouldYearsLongDifferentEndsSelfMomentsUsedHouseYouthPoetGardenClaimsDisappointmentFixedLong AgoPilgrimage Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way
“As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.” ChildrenMotherHouseYouthRoseNostalgiaFragranceBackyards Author:Thelma Golden
“Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, "How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?" It is a dazzling and elegant question, a question that demands an answer--a range of answers, really, spiraling outward in widening circles.” DreamHouseAnswersYouthDemandCirclesRangeFoundersElegantJaneDazzlingHullHull House Author:Bill Ayers
“Write, if you must; not otherwise. Do not write, if you can earn a fair living at teaching or dressmaking, at electricity or hod-carrying. Make shoes, weed cabbages, survey land, keep house, make ice-cream, sell cake, climb a telephone pole. Nay, be a lightning-rod peddler or a book agent, before you set your heart upon it that you shall write for a living.... Living? It is more likely to be dying by your pen; despairing by your pen; burying hope and heart and youth and courage in your ink-stand.” IfsWritingHeartBookHouseTeachingLandDyingYouthFairsSellsShoesIceAgentsClimbsPensWeedCakeLightningCreamElectricityTelephonesIce CreamInkSurveysCabbageBuryingPeddler Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
“When my daughter left for college, I lost my in-house consultant to youth culture. There's just stuff I don't get. And there's something kind of pathetic about someone my age trying to pretend she gets it, so I don't try to pretend.” TryingKindAgeCultureHouseLostLeftStuffYouthCollegeDaughterMy DaughterPatheticConsultantsYouth Culture Author:Emily Yoffe
“Each of us can be a leader. We need to remember that the mantle of leadership is not the cloak of comfort, but the robe of responsibility. Perhaps our service is to youth. If so, I caution: 'Youth needs fewer critics and more models.' One hundred years from now it will not matter what kind of a car we drove, what kind of a house we lived in, how much we had in the bank account, nor what our clothes looked like. But the world may be a little better because we were important in the life of a boy or a girl.” IfsWorldNeedsYearsKindMayLittlesImportantMatterRememberGirlHouseResponsibilityLeaderBoysCarYouthComfortClothesModelsHundredAccountsCriticsFewerCautionCloaksRobesBank Accounts Author:Thomas S. Monson
“1962 to 1965, where suddenly the guitar became this icon of youth culture all over the world, thanks mostly to the Beatles. Add to that, that I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times, and that the guitar was the one instrument that my parents absolutely refused to let in the house. So you add it up and see that irresistible forces led me to the guitar.” WorldHardNightCultureHouseForceParentSawsYouthInstrumentsAddGuitarThanksIconsIrresistibleYouth CultureHard DaysIrresistible Force Author:Pat Metheny
“Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over - unless we find new ways of producing energy.” IfsThinkingWayWellsBigsHouseEnergyAirCarYouthPlanetsStandardsNew WaysConditioningBig HousesAir Conditioning Author:Barack Obama
“I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive ways in the classroom. The next Saturday I was acting, and thereafter it became a ritual of my youth to see a show at the Belvoir on Sundays and, if I was lucky, another at the Opera House on Monday after school.” IfsWayShouldShowsSchoolNextHouseParentActingClassTeacherYouthDramaLuckySundayRitualOperaClassroomSaturdayMondayCurbDisruptiveAfter SchoolOpera HouseDrama Class Author:David Wenham
“What first got me involved in politics was being 14, and a youth organizer comes to my house with a van full of 14 year old girls. "Hey, you want to go to the beach with us? But first we're going to go support the cannery workers' strike in Watsonville."” WantYearsFirstsGirlHouseSupportYouthInvolvedWorkersStrikesHeyBeachVansHey YouOrganizer Author:Boots Riley
“I wish there were more young people in the big houses, but sometimes it's really hard for them to believe in the youth because they go for what's the most expected.” PeopleBelieveSometimesHouseWishYouth Author:Olivier Rousteing
“Why does crime happen? Well, you might say that it's because youths don't have jobs. Or you might say that's because the doors of our buildings are not fortified enough. Given some limited funds to spend, you can either create yet another national employment program or you can equip houses with even better cameras, sensors, and locks.” WellsDoeEnoughMightHappensJobsHouseGivenDoorsCrimeYouthBuildingProgramCamerasEmploymentFundLocksSensors Author:Evgeny Morozov