Forgetfulness, the unhistorical, is ... the atmosphere, in which alone life can come into being. In order to understand it, let us… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
Even very recently, the elders could say: 'You know, I have been young and you never have been old.' But today's young… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Politics is clearly a not so happening topic in our young blood. I could clearly see many students yawning. Some might have… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage:… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If there is any one thing most needed in this time of tumult and frustration, when men and women and youth and… — Ann M. Dibb Copy Share Image
Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It doesn't take billions of dollars or complex medical technologies, and there doesn't have to be a dramatic upending to the current… — James Redford Copy Share Image
In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The biggest problem I had - and the biggest problem teenagers have - is not how they dress, how they look or… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
This hill crossed with broken pines and maples lumpy with the burial mounds of uprooted hemlocks (hurricane of '38) out of their… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I haven't written poetry in a long time but I read it and I miss it. It is so hard to write.… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
“He picks up speed and seems to lose his gangliness, the slouchy funk of hormones and unbelonging and all the stammering things… — Don Delillo Underworld Copy Share Image
Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites,… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I think when you're young and you get together with a group of guys who think like you and you start to… — Greg Dulli Copy Share Image
We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“It’s odd how one’s memories of youth turn out so bleak. Why does the business of growing up—one’s recollections of growth itself—have… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The rulling to kill the Americans and their allies - civilians and military - is an individual duty for every Muslim who… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I'm a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I've always strived to find those records that people don't know, but they actually go "Wow, what is this?" - and they… — John Digweed Copy Share Image
“Be game--take a chance--don't hide behind veils and veils of discretion... Go forward with what you have to say, expressing things as… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Thwarted, or starved, in the important objects proper to young capacities, the boys and young men naturally find or invent deviant objects… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“Eight-and-twenty years,' said I, 'I have lived, and never a ghost have I seen as yet.' The old woman sat staring hard… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“His adolescent nerdliness vaporizing any iota of a chance he had for young love. Everybody else going through the terror and joy… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age, and to get drunk till forty; but, after forty, gives them leave to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“At seventeen, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind;… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
The Secretary, working in the Dismal Swamp betimes next morning, was informed that a youth waited in the hall who gave the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Of course, all animals have different things to learn while traversing the arc that takes them from sexually immature, vulnerable child to… — Barbara Natterson-Horowitz Copy Share Image
The band and I were leading at a Youth Specialties convention. We were asked to back up Matt Maher for one of… — Chris Tomlin Copy Share Image
“Look, girls know when they’re cute,” he said. “You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in… — Daniel Amory Copy Share Image
I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn’t quite happen. I guess I’m someone for whom youth still seems more real than the… — Donald Fagen Copy Share Image
Certainly youth of color, particularly those in ghetto communities, find themselves born into the cage. They are born into a community in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
At the age of ten, he is a child; at twenty, a youth, and at thirty, he is called handsome. At forty,… — Sri Guru Granth Sahib Copy Share Image
Many critics speak about coming-of-age love, about initiation, about young libido, and so forth. I've never seen it only this way. We… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I'm sick of that, I said. Young, young, young, that's what I get, all day, everyday. But I know your secret....You're all… — Stephanie Danler Copy Share Image
One of the delights beyond the grasp of youth is that of Not Going. Not to have an invitation for the dance,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
