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.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1940Quotes
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
—Herbert Hoover, 1936The young man must store up, the old man must use.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 63There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
—Mark Twain, 1876The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward VIII, 1957Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.
—Theognis, c. 550 BCI shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
—Lord Byron, 1813Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.
—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
—Cicero, 44 BCI was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.
—Groucho Marx, 1959