Time, Aging & Legacy: Youth Quotes

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"I never grew up"

Tracey Emin, Artist

Tracey Emin

"Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old"

Michael Caine, Actor

Michael Caine

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

Pearl S. Buck

"The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

Malcolm Muggeridge

"I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

James M. Barrie

"Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

Jock Sturges

"Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves"

Virginia Satir, Psychologist

Virginia Satir

"Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all"

Gale Sayers, Athlete

Gale Sayers

"The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not"

Emma Thompson, Actress

Emma Thompson

"As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini"

David Blaine, Entertainer

"In a dream you are never eighty"

Anne Sexton, Poet

Anne Sexton

"We can either allow our youth to shoot baskets or watch them continue to shoot people"

Henry Cisneros, Politician

"The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses"

Anselm Kiefer, Artist

"You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough"

Joe E. Lewis, Comedian

"Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young, and at last die in youth, even when in years would count as old"

Tryon Edwards, Theologian

"I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them"

Matt Gonzalez, Politician

"Every success of our youth is our strength, our potential, our hope for the future"

Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President

Shavkat Mirziyoyev

"The best substitute for experience is being sixteen"

Raymond Duncan, Writer

"No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation"

Knut Hamsun, Author

Knut Hamsun

"Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages"

Hervey Allen, Author

Hervey Allen

"People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time"

Joss Stone, Musician

Joss Stone

"There's really no age limit when you out there in those streets"

Young Buck, Musician

"I started acting in my parents' living room when I was five years old"

Megan Gallagher, Actress

"I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts"

Carl Barks, Artist

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Those whom the gods love grow young"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

Oscar Wilde

"How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Through our great good fortune, in our youth, our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"The youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

Benjamin Disraeli

"It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

Peter Ustinov

"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man"

Ovid, Poet

Ovid

"Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

Henri Frederic Amiel

"It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length"

Helen Keller, Author

Helen Keller

"The child is father of the man"

William Wordsworth, Poet

William Wordsworth

"Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

Walt Disney

"I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing"

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

"I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth, when all the world is new to it"

Henri Matisse, Artist

Henri Matisse

"Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it"

George Will, Journalist

George Will

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