You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
America is a young country with an old mentality.
I'd never left America until I was 18.
The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad.
If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.
That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me.
The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.
To the world, you are America.
I get all fired up about aging in America.
The world is still a fantastic and wondrous place to live.
When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.