Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.

Childhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.

Ah, there are no children nowadays.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.

Most men employ the first years of their life in making the last miserable.

No time to marry, no time to settle down, I’m a young woman, and ain’t done runnin’ round.

A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.

The young always have the same problem—how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their elders and copying one another.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.