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 FitzgeraldLiving is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.
Audrey HepburnYou hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people’s command of English – that’s nonsense.
Margaret AtwoodGenius, when young, is divine.
Benjamin DisraeliSome old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
Alexander PopeThe revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
Huey NewtonLove is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.
Ariana GrandeThe Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
Benjamin DisraeliI never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
Robert FrostHow could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
Henry David ThoreauThe world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
ChanakyaNo one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
George OrwellWe should all start to live before we get too old.
Marilyn MonroeI am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
Martin LutherMany a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
John SteinbeckIn fact, you couldn’t give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
J. K. RowlingEach has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia WoolfThe foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
DiogenesWhen I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn’t live past 30.
David BowieAs I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMemories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
Corrie Ten BoomThere is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Mark TwainAlmost everything that is great has been done by youth.
Benjamin DisraeliLife would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark TwainPassion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI have been a youngster and I know speeches are boring.
Sunil ChhetriBashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
AristotleRashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
Marcus Tullius CiceroAdults are obsolete children.
Dr. SeussBeing young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.
Greta ThunbergSan Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
Jack LondonIt’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.
Maya AngelouThe youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
Henry David ThoreauLove is too young to know what conscience is.
William ShakespeareFashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
Lana Del ReyThe duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
Kurt CobainI have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.
Jimmy CarterLike all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin DisraeliSome people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.
Bob DylanWhen I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.
Billy GrahamHappy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles DickensThe young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
AristotlePeople think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.
RihannaChristmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.
Kobe BryantI wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.
Billie EilishEach day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur SchopenhauerRemember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
Gilbert K. ChestertonExperience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamUntil 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.
Hermann HesseCould the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
William JamesTricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.
Benjamin FranklinThe only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Theodore RooseveltI love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.
Pope FrancisIn my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
Benjamin FranklinSome folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don’t buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.
David ByrneThe nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.
George BestWhen they set off for their first day at their new school, I will never forget that winter morning as I watched our girls, just 7 and 10 years old, pile into those black SUVs with all those big men with guns.
Michelle ObamaWhenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.
Steven Wright