Delinquents Quotes - Page 3

• They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.

  Sherman Alexie

  Kids, Cells, White

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “Flight: A Novel”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• And who are you supposed to be? the King of snot-nosed delinquents?

  Michael Buckley

  Kings, Supposed To Be

  Michael Buckley (2007). “The Sisters Grimm: The unusual suspects”

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• The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.

  Susan Sontag

  Inspiration, Writing, Guilt

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• Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed, but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. It gives itself in response to love and tending, offers its sesonal flowering and fruiting. But we are tenants and not possessors, lovers, and not masters. Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time..."

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Rain, Thinking, Wind

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• All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

  Tennessee Williams

  God, Atheism, Mythology

  Tennessee Williams (2009). “The Night of the Iguana”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

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• When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

  Arlen Specter

  Education, Believe, Students

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• I doubt I would ever be missed. Noted absent, charged delinquent, reprimanded but never missed.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Doubt, Absent

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Inside: Inside Out\Outside In”, p.45, Harlequin

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• Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.

  Ray Bradbury

  Juvenile

  Ray Bradbury (1951). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, Simon and Schuster

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• It was something of a mystery how a couple of teenage girls had managed to escape detection for two years, especially when one of them was a privileged Moroi princess and the other a delinquent dhampir with a disciplinary file so long that it broke school records.

  Richelle Mead

  Girl, Teenage, Couple

  Richelle Mead (2017). “Vampire Academy: The Untold Stories”, p.68, Penguin UK

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• In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was a fact in American life.

  Norman Mailer

  Hipster, Village, Faces

  Norman Mailer (1992). “Advertisements for Myself”, p.340, Harvard University Press

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• General," said the commander of the delinquent brigade, "I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Military, Enemy

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.229, 谷月社

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• Working with drug addicts, alcoholics, and so-called juvenile delinquents in New York City convinced me that instead of working with individuals, more effective methods would deal with the societal conditions that create dysfunctional behaviors in the first place.

  Jacque Fresco

  New York, Cities, Drug

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• My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence.

  Lisa Lutz

  Mother, Father, Boys

  Lisa Lutz (2011). “Lisa Lutz Spellman Series E-Book Box Set: The Spellman Files, Curse of the Spellmans, Revenge of the Spellmans, The Spellmans Strike Again”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.

  Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

  Government, Corporations, Small Business

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• If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don't have the same anxiety triggers that we have.

  Abraham Zaleznik

  Entrepreneur, Anxiety, Psychology

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• I affirm that the crisis of the disc is a lure, it does not exist: the offer is intact, the increasing demand. But, each night, in the hangars of the music, the half of stock is stolen. Imagine the reaction of Renault vis-a-vis delinquents who would force the door daily to conceal the cars!

  Jean-Louis Murat

  Night, Doors, Car

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• Near our vineyard there was a pear tree laden with fruit that was not attractive in either flavor or form. One night, when I [at the age of sixteen] had played until dark on the sandlot with some other juvenile delinquents, we went to shake that tree and carry off its fruit. From it we carried off huge loads, not to feast on, but to throw to the pigs, although we did eat a few ourselves. We did it just because it was forbidden.

  Saint Augustine

  Dark, Night, Pigs

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• Naturally, grown-up citizens are concerned about the beatniks and delinquents. ... The question is why the grownups do not, more soberly, draw the same conclusions as the youth. Or, since no doubt many people are quite clear about the connection that the structure of society that has becoming increasingly dominant in our country is disastrous to the growth of excellence and manliness, why don't more people speak up and say so?

  Paul Goodman

  Country, People, Excellence

  Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 10), 1956.

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• The fifties were when people started coming down on "juvenile delinquents," "hoodlums," "vandals"--anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  People, Motorcycle, Young

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• Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.

  Charles Finch

  Doors, Back Doors, Adulthood

  Charles Finch (2014). “The Last Enchantments”, p.36, Macmillan

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