Time, Aging & Legacy: Youth Quotes

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"Youth comes but once in a lifetime"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world"

Jane Austen, Writer

Jane Austen

"The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool"

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

Bill Watterson

"Good parties create a temporary youthfulness"

Mason Cooley, Writer

Mason Cooley

"Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five"

Jerry Hall, Model

Jerry Hall

"Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous"

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

"If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

Vincent Van Gogh

"The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too"

Tom Hanks, Actor

Tom Hanks

"Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

Ralph Nader

"Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone"

John Dryden, Poet

John Dryden

"He who matures early lives in anticipation"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

James Russell Lowell

"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

Alfred North Whitehead

"I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult"

Matt Groening, Cartoonist

Matt Groening

"Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

Orison Swett Marden

"At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable"

Orson Welles, Actor

Orson Welles

"Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults"

Gore Vidal, Novelist

Gore Vidal

"I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it"

Michael Caine, Actor

Michael Caine

"Death is a distant rumor to the young"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

Andy Rooney

"The stars shall fade away, the sun himself grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, but thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, unhurt amidst the wars of elements, the wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds"

Joseph Addison, Writer

Joseph Addison

"I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own"

Margaret Atwood, Novelist

Margaret Atwood

"Another belief of mine, that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise"

Margaret Atwood, Novelist

Margaret Atwood

"Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon"

Andre Gide, Novelist

Andre Gide

"So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!"

Vanessa Hudgens, Actress

Vanessa Hudgens

"Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies', there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

James M. Barrie

"Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

James M. Barrie

"Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

Woodrow Wilson

"Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people"

Charles Lamb, Critic

Charles Lamb

"For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

Margaret Fuller

"Ask the young. They know everything"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

Joseph Joubert

"Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man"

Chris Brown, Musician

Chris Brown

"The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers"

Gail Godwin, Novelist

Gail Godwin

"In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults"

Jessamyn West, Author

Jessamyn West

"Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

Charlie Sheen

"I was a very wanting child"

Loretta Young, Actress

Loretta Young

"The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

Quentin Crisp

"At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands"

Robert Benchley, Comedian

Robert Benchley

"I was a veteran, before I was a teenager"

Michael Jackson, Musician

"I rememeber one time, we were getting ready to go to South America, and everything was packed up and in the car, ready to go, and I hid, and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go"

Michael Jackson, Musician

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