Old school Quote by Charles Dickens

“Old age is the new childhood.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“I had been very grown-up when I was in primary school. But as I continued through secondary-school, I in fact became less grown-up. And…

— Hiroki Kawakami

“Maybe when you were a kid you were so unsure of yourself that every school year was a time of reinvention; maybe only adults…

— Anna Quindlen

“In his play he is no longer an onlooker merely; he is a part of the busy world of adults. He is practicing to…

— Caroline Pratt

“He was a nobody. One of those shy kids who turned into social invalids when that first blast of adolescence hit, meekly accepted their…

— John Backderf

“I was so young, I tell myself now. I was twenty-one, only recently farewelled by childhood, although at the time childhood seemed like ancient…

— Mary-Rose MacColl

“he was as good as any young man, or better because young men were no longer what they used to be.”

— Chinua Achebe

“It may be that what we call modern is nothing, but what is not worthy of remaining to become old.”

— Dante Alighieri

“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses his past and is dead for the future.”

— Euripides

“When I think of my youth, he went in, what we took for granted, what we assumed was for ever certain, for ever permanent.”

— William Boyd

“Old was NOT one of the things I wanted to be when I grew up!!”

— Jim Glynn

“Do not think the youth has no force, because he cannot speak to you and me. Hark! in the next room his voice is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson