Time, Aging & Legacy: Youth Quotes

"I had a kind of Dickensian childhood"

Shaun Cassidy, Musician

"Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways"

Mac Davis, Musician

"I went through a wood-chopping phase when I was nine or 10"

Jennifer Lawrence, Actress

"For me, from a pretty young age, up until about 21 years old, hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life"

Jon Fishman, Musician

"I was very much of a tomboy"

Suzanne Farrell, Dancer

"I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad"

Dusty Springfield, Musician

"I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger"

James Young, Musician

"I've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart"

Annette Funicello, Actress

"When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to be"

Josh Schwartz, Producer

"I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us, or try and hold onto it, because it so precious to us, and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives"

Ben Kingsley, Actor

"At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there's a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it"

Josh Lucas, Actor

"Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside"

Annette Funicello, Actress

"So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful"

Goldie Hawn, Actress

"Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young!"

Goldie Hawn, Actress

"I was surprised by the response of young people, because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics"

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist

"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human, that we have as a child, is something we necessarily must lose"

Dennis Potter, Dramatist

"Recently, I saw Kasparov, and he looked to me as still young and potent champion"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"I'm 18 and I like it!"

Alice Cooper, Musician

"Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13"

Balthazar Getty, Actor

"I didn't do the typical things that young kids do"

Balthazar Getty, Actor

"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"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World"

John Millington Synge, Poet

"I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better"

John Denver, Musician

"Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up"

Robert Smith, Musician

"Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do"

Judd Nelson, Actor

"Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up"

Judd Nelson, Actor

"Hold fast to youth and beauty"

Elizabeth Arden, Businessman

"More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you, past time itself"

John Thorn, Historian

"I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me"

Patrick Stewart, Actor

"The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning"

Roy Haynes, Musician

"Yeah, I don't mess with chicks younger. They got to be almost thirty"

Mike Epps, Comedian

"I'm too young at 50. I'm not grown up yet. There's part of everybody like that"

Julie Walters, Actress

"I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in"

Matthew Vaughn, Producer

"In Japan, Australia, and England, there is such a strong youth culture"

Marc Newson, Designer

"And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old"

Julius Erving, Athlete

"It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager"

Emily Watson, Actress

"I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to"

Spalding Gray, Actor

"Hold fast to life and youth"

Elizabeth Arden, Businessman

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