Millenials Quotes

Why is it so hard? It's hard because it matters, I think.

In recent years a smaller share of young adults has been employed than at any time since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking such trends in 1948. So it's not surprising that this generation of youthful protesters has a different focus for their grievances: the economy, stupid. But notice the targets they've chosen to demonize. It's all about class, not age. It's 1% versus 99%, not young versus old. Occupy Wall Street, not Occupy Leisure World.

One thing they do not teach you in college is what you will actually be doing in a career of your choosing.

At least a hospital stay will give him an excuse to halt the job hunt.

We skipped right over Walmart on the ladder down.

I'm looking for something new to believe in that isn't the way people yearn at night in the city.

There's comfort in a life lived in circles and its careful, sloping lines.

Cigarette smoke when i didn't ask for it. Never when I did.

Everyone loves a goddamned trainwreck, after all.

Information is valuable. Librarians and libraries are, at best incidental; at worst, in the way.

I never sleep well when I'm on call.

This is the generation that thinks of itself as global citizens but knows little about the world and acts locally. It is the most diverse generation in collegiate history with the strongest relationships between races but they have limited interest in talking about race or reaching across political or generational divides.

Only through becoming aware of yourself and your limitations can you be transparent with others.

I'd started calling my parents but only when I knew they wouldn't be home.

I just want to always be here. In this place. Right here, right now.

He didn't give a shit if Shakespeare didn't have glitter back in his day.

No matter how you define success, you will need to be resilient, empowered, authentic, and limber to get there.

You were just a young girl not wanting to let on that death could happen to one who hadn't even lived yet.

Flora went to the cinema every day that week. She saw the same movie each day, and wore the same dress.

Understanding what is being said is only a fraction of the task of communicating. Taking in signals from the entire context is critical.