Broken ; heart Quote by Mak_786

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

— Robert Lowell

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

— James Russell Lowell

The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

— Herbert Spencer

A lot of children can go back and look at their childhood and find reasons why it wasn't perfect. But why whine about something…

— Junior Seau

I've always been interested, since graduate school, in why some children wilt and shrink back from challenges and give up in the face of…

— Carol S. Dweck

When there is no feeling of accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.

— Joe Whitney

I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage of the…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects,…

— C. Everett Koop

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some people's developmental path has not equipped them to stand up and let go of something.

— Henry Cloud

We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but…

— Neil Strauss

It's age. It's a diminution of energy and the worry that there are no new ideas. It's an increasing lack of confidence. I'm not…

— Stephen Sondheim