Twenty Years Crisis

Famous quotes containing the words twenty years, twenty, years and/or crisis:

“Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man—and after that, praying.”
—Irish proverb.

“Is not the king’s name twenty thousand names?
Arm, arm, my name! A puny subject strikes
At thy great glory.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.”
—Stephen Bayley (b. 1951)

“The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from the sleep of passions to their rage.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)