“I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, and impressions are permanent.” WritingImaginationStyleYouthWarmImpressionPermanent Book:The portable Thomas Jefferson Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson
“It is a curious truth - and yet a truth forced upon us by daily observation - that it is not the women who have suffered most who are the unhappy women. A state of permanent unhappiness - not the morbid, half-cherished melancholy of youth, which generally wears off with wiser years, but that settled, incurable discontent and dissatisfaction with all things and all people, which we see in some women, is, with very rare exceptions, at once the index and the exponent of a thoroughly selfish character.” PeopleYearsStatesCharacterHalfYouthAll ThingsSelfishUnhappyObservationCuriousPermanentExceptionUnhappinessMelancholyWiserDiscontentDissatisfactionMorbidExponentsHappy Woman Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“It is to them I look, to the rising generation, and not to the one now in power, for these great reformations i.e., emancipation of slaves and settlement of the Virginia constitution on a firmer and more permanent basis.” LooksGenerationsYouthBasesConstitutionSlavePermanentRisingReformationVirginiaEmancipationSettlementInexperience Author:Thomas Jefferson
“Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so may separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself.” IfsWellsMayCoursesSidesHoursLinesResultsMoralYouthDrinkAuthorityAnxietyFinalsBusySaintPracticalsPermanentExpertsSpheresDrunkards Book:Habit Source: Habit
“Today's youth have been cast in a condition of liminal drift, with no way of knowing whether it is transitory or permanent.” WayHas BeensTodayKnowingConditionsYouthCastsPermanentTransitoryToday's Youth Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“Certainly youth of color, particularly those in ghetto communities, find themselves born into the cage. They are born into a community in which the rules, laws, policies, structures of their lives virtually guarantee that they will remain trapped for life. It begins at a very early age when their parents themselves are either behind bars or locked in a permanent second-class status and cannot afford them the opportunities they otherwise could.” AgeLawOpportunityParentBornCommunityBehindsClassPolicyYouthColorStructureBarsPermanentGuaranteesLockedTrappedCagesGhettoGuarantees ThatClass Status Author:Michelle Alexander
“Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.” PeopleYoungLife IsGrowingConditionsYouthSweetPermanentTeenageIntoxicationNicomachean EthicsTeenage LifeYouth LifeLife Is Sweet Author:Aristotle
“A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.” MinutesYouthSweetPermanentLastingPerfumeVioletHamlet And OpheliaPolonius Book:Hamlet Source: Hamlet