Quotes About Time

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.

I don't think that youth should be glorified.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.

The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'.

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it's never going to happen. There's a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I've never done that because I think it's so insignificant.

You might not remember what you had for dinner last night, but you remember everything about one particular summer of your youth. It's like that.

Youth is wasted on the young. And it doesn't even matter if you sit a young person down and tell them, 'You're so healthy, take advantage of it before it's gone!' They still can't hear it.

We can't get our youth back.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.

Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.

The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.

At the end. First start off and do your youth thing In Hollywood and then go to New York later. But it wound up being later, later than I thought it was going to be.

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth.

The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.

Things don't have to come to you in your youth. It's fine for them to come to you when you get older. That's a motto in my household.

In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.