When I was younger, I used to have more flair, I used to do more tricks, the nutmegs, the step-overs.

Some 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.

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

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

Christmas 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.

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Taxpayers have long memories, especially when it comes to how their hard-earned money is spent.

When 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.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

My life is mine to remember.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people’s command of English – that’s nonsense.

It’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.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

In 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.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

My mum passing away wasn’t funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Happy, 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!

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Youth is wasted on the young.

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

As 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.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Each 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.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious – like, I don’t remember them ever being together.

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.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

I still close my eyes and go home – I can always draw from that.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

I was adored once too.

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.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

There’s something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that ‚Everlong‘ is on it, or ‚Best of You‘ is on it, and it’s really special.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.