In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
I don't think you understand what a job really is when you're a teenager. — Tiffani Thiessen Copy Share Image
The Jewish people, ever since David slew Goliath, have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
When you're a teenager, you think you're invincible. You don't listen to anyone. — Goldlink Copy Share Image
Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort. — John Hurt Copy Share Image
All of the young people - the artsy people, people who get overlooked because they're weird or they don't have hype around… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“She had the wild look of someone who hadn’t slept in twenty-four hours, with purplish semicircles underneath both her eyes. Being eighteen… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
“you don’t grow up until you stop worrying about other people’s purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We grow up being told about great figures in our society, and as you get older you have to question the stories… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
“Blessed are you when you enjoyed the company of elderly people. They are always ready to share their rich experience and wisdom… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager. And… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
“Listen! The Hate U—the letter U—Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody. T-H-U-G L-I-F-E. Meaning what society give us as youth, it bites them… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
It used to be thought that you stopped making new neural connections in your youth and from then on your brain was… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
I regret behaving badly when I was younger. I did not know any better at the time. The thing is that the… — Jim Broadbent Copy Share Image
So many times, people want you to stay the way you were, be as you were before because they want to encapsulate… — Maxwell Copy Share Image
With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew… — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
“My child, I know you're not a child But I still see you running wild Between those flowering trees. Your sparkling dreams,… — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
Life is truly a ride. We're all strapped in and no one can stop it. When the doctor slaps your behind, he's… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
If I'm going to be a pessimist, then I should just stop writing for young people because that's too heavy a burden… — Deborah Ellis Copy Share Image
It's important for the progressive youth to remember that the agenda you set today is the agenda that will matter tomorrow. If… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
When you get older and more open and more honest, it is easier to show yourself how you really are. — Marco van Basten Copy Share Image
You have money, fame, youth, beauty, talent. That's a good start... for feeling good. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary. — Al Capp Copy Share Image
“The young see things in black and white while the favorite adverb of the aged is "perhaps.” — Ralph McInerny Copy Share Image
What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution. — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I am too young to be called wise and I am too old to be called young.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me. — Loni Anderson Copy Share Image
I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior. — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
Make a lot of walks to get healthy and don't read that much but save yourself some until you're grown up. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image