British Quote by Julia Baird

“The trouble is that old age is not interesting until one gets there, a foreign country with an unknown language to the young, and…

— May Sarton

The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the young republic as a wide-eyed adolescent, socially ungainly…

— Simon Schama

“There grows in the North Country a certain kind of youth of whom it may be said that he is born to be a…

— Arnold Bennett

“Surely the lives of the old are briefer than the young.”

— Robert Lowell

“The young are often savvy in the cultural world but not so much the intellectual; the old the intellectual but not so much the…

— Criss Jami

“The world is to the young.”

— Joseph Conrad

“One gets glimpses, even in our country, of that which is ageless--heavy thought in the face of an infant, and frolic childhood in that…

— C.S. Lewis

“EAST: youthfulness, innocence, freshness SOUTH: activity, clarity, simplicity WEST: aging, questioning, wisdom NORTH: maturity, acceptance, death”

— Matthew Frederick

“When you're young you can't work out the age of an adult - they're just quite old, old, or very old.”

— Michael Morpurgo

Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have…

— Carl Rogers

“Whatever happens I want you to think of yourselves as young Americans, and I want you to be proud of that. It is difficult…

— Carol Ryrie Brink

The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know, and more.

— Roger Ebert