Top 766 Roaring Twenties Quotes & Sayings

The waters of the Ganga are roaring among his matted locks.

My twenties were great. Who didn't have fun in their twenties? But my attention was more out there, more about the surface stuff and the cosmetic stuff. I was always thinking, 'What do I need to do?' Now in my thirties, it's, 'What do I want to do?' I've just become more solid with my own identity. So whoever wants to say their twenties are better... Yes, they're fun, especially at night - better parties, better cocktails... not better sex though. Absolutely not. And whoever says that is lying because sex in your thirties and beyond is f**king out of this world.

I lived my twenties in a very public manner and if anyone's twenties are documented it's not always going to be pretty.

You could be adding gasoline to a roaring fire. We understand that. But this is who we are.

I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me.

The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.

Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words.

Michael Bohn provides a rare opportunity to experience the American sporting scene in the Roaring Twenties. A constant stream of legendary characters marches across these pages. You’ll meet them all: The Babe, The Four Horsemen, The Manassa Manassas Mauler, The Wheaton Iceman, Bill Tilden, Gertrude Ederle, and Grantland Rice, the sportswriter whose purple prose made them all come alive.

We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.

Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.

My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

I looked back on the roaring Twenties - with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby,' and the pre-Code films - as a party I had somehow managed to miss. After World War Two, I expected something similar, a return to the period after the first war, but when the skirt lengths went down instead of up, I knew we were in big trouble.

It's exciting to hear lions roaring deeply at 11 P. M. at night. It's mad.

When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.

Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.

In your late teens and early twenties, everything is idealism. Everything should just work in black and white. That's good. You need that. I think most revolutions are started by people in their teens and twenties.

You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.

From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.

Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side their male counterparts during the Golden Age of American sports. Michael Bohn shares an engaging story of how two sports heroines, tennis player Helen Wills and swimmer Gertrude Ederle, helped embolden women to seek self-fulfillment by challenging the status quo.

All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye.

When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof.

After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university of Illinois the skirt lengths dropped instead of going up as they had during the roaring twenties and I knew that was a very bad sign, and it is symbolic and reflective of a very repressive time, and some of that was laid the feet of the cold war.

When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number of films and a bunch of television shows that dealt with the mythology of the underworld from that period.

You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.

I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed.

The roaring street is hung for miles With fierce electric fire.

I was closeted into my mid-twenties and even into my late twenties. It screwed up my relationships; it screwed up things with my family that I've since repaired.

America is coming about, and it's coming back, and it's roaring and you can hear it. It's going to be bigger and better. It is going to be. It is going to be. Remember. And it's roaring. It's going to be bigger, and better, and stronger than ever before.

Like the ostrich, head under wingWhen the roaring storm breaks,So many people take refugeUnder the soft pillowOf specious arguments.

MID-TWENTIES BREAKDOWN: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often caused by an inability to function outside of school or structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical usage.

I was a cover artist for years. I didn't start writing songs until I was in my mid-twenties. I wrote them with John Leventhal, and they were pretty bad. I was in my late twenties when I wrote the first song with him that made any sense to me about what I was rooted in and what spoke for me as an artist. That was 'Diamond in the Rough.'

The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.

If I don't die by Thursday, I'll be roaring Friday night.

It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning.

One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.

We say, 'The market plummets,' like it's some roaring creature.

Under Bill Clinton we had a roaring economy that looked really good.

Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined.

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children.

Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder.

The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.

The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.

I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.

I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was a very magic timer in my mind because it was something that I had missed.

Everyone thinks of the roaring twenties and associates it with decadence and flappers, female sexual liberation, the freedom of women to express themselves, the beginning of feminism. But it was also a time of huge, huge change.

Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!

What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?

Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.

If you go to an ATM for a hundred dollars and it keeps spitting twenties, when would you walk away? When it wasn't spitting twenties no more. As long as you can take the money out, you'd stay there. That's what the wrestling business is like.

There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

We roared. We were one big animal throat, roaring.

The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn.

After the sharp-eyed jay and the roaring lion, peace will come on dove's gentle wing.

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

There are two kinds of geniuses. The characteristic of the one is roaring, but the lightning is meagre and rarely strikes; the other kind is characterized by reflection by which it constrains itself or restrains the roaring. But the lightning is all the more intense; with the speed and sureness of lightning it hits the selected particular points - and is fatal.

I can't imagine painting my face in a team colour and roaring with delight as a multi-millionaire kicks a ball at a net.

There's another style of meditation that I've been doing since my mid-twenties. Tapping into your higher self to get a glimpse of yourself from the outside and get insight into what's going on in your life. I learned that from my godfather in my mid-twenties.

There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.