Quotes About Youth

I had my appendix out when I was 11, and that was the last time I was in a hospital. That was a one-night deal. So I've spent basically one night in a hospital.

Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.

Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.

I feel like I'm 1,000. I don't feel I'm young enough a lot of the time.

You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.

There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.

Marvin Gaye is our John Lennon. The longer he's gone, the more young people appreciate his art. 'What's Going On' was a work of genius far ahead of it's time.

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

You're too young. I've met Miss Dix. She wants women who are matronly and not pretty. You fail on both requirements.

Reynolds was thirty-three and healthy and beautiful when she died on December 16, 1998.

Miss?" She wasn't a "Miss"; she was well over forty, but the old ones loved being mistaken for young meat.

Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violet But gold - smells of nothing.

For the young the days go fast and the years go slow; for the old the days go slow and the years go fast.

I had that feeling you have when you're watching a sad movie, sobbing at the heartbreak you are feeling at the same time that you know the heartbreak isn't exactly real, that it will be gone by the time you get home and make a cup of tea. I found a lot of life like that when I was younger, as though I was practicing for what came later.

It was a puzzle to her, how eagerly she'd rushed into life when she was eighteen or twenty, and in what a desultory fashion it had dragged out ever since.

Nora had looked at herself in the bathroom mirror as she was applying mascara and realized that her skin had begun to look like silk after you washed it, serviceable but without its sheen.

He'd had a dog once, in that way he'd had everything in his childhood, ordinary but a lot less lasting.

The curse of having young people about the house was that they were always so redolent of possibility.

When we think of longer life expectancy, we may envision ten years added to our existence later on. But it may also be that we've added time to adolescence, which now stretches past the teen years and into the twenties.

First we were so young and then we were so busy and then one day we awoke to discover that we were an age we once thought of as old.

The difference between fifty and sixty is nothing; the difference between eight and eighteen is more or less a lifetime.

Here is what I know about dressing like your teenage daughter: She will always look better than you