“When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.”— Jim Henson, goodreads.com
“Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands on a continent and clasps the crest of an ocean in either hand. Our nation, glorious in youth and strength, looks into the future with eager eyes and rejoices as a strong man to run a rac…”— Theodore Roosevelt, theodorerooseveltcenter.org
“We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.”— Bill Russell, goodreads.com
“Selling bracelets to old ladies isn't as cute when you are a teenager with constant accidental boners.”— Shane Dawson, goodreads.com
“I'm here to tell you that it gets worse. It really does. The problems you have as a kid will seem ridiculous when you get older because bigger and worse problems will come along. But you will learn to deal with them easier as you grow up, or, like me, you'll just stop giving a shit. So yes, it gets…”— Shane Dawson, amazon.com
“You know this is the best time, right? It is all downhill from here, for real. I mean, you do get hotter, and get to do or eat whatever you want, and that’s awesome, but things are new right now. And you feel things so hard and that is beautiful.”— Stephen Falk, Gretchen Cutler, Aya Cash, imdb.com
“The only thing I want to be trapped in is my youthful soul.”— Drew Wilson, andrewwilsonphoto.tumblr.com
“Last year, I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared, I ain't scared any more.”— Hank Aaron, baseball-almanac.com
“Being young is having more energy and more enthusiasm to learn the truth of our world. You are more powerful than many of us.”— Yoko Ono, twitter.com
“A kid copies what is good. I remember the first time I saw Lefty O'Doul, and he was as far away as those palms. And I saw the guy come to bat in batting practice. I was looking through a knothole, and I said, "Geez, does that guy look good!" And it was Lefty O'Doul, one of the greatest hitters ever.”— Ted Williams, en.wikiquote.org
“When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.”— Lady Bird Johnson, izquotes.com
“Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“I just clung closer to her and knew the boogeyman couldn't get me, not as long as Mama held me in her arms, not as long as I didn't think about the little girl who had been cut up and stuffed in a trunk -- only a block away from our house -- the one crime that freaked me out when I was still very yo…”— Etta James, amazon.com
“My father disappeared when I was about seven years old, never to show up again, and my mother died when I was quite young, and I didn't start school 'til I was eight years old because I had a brother who died when he was fourteen, and then with my father leaving I was the only thing left that my mot…”— Jackie Gleason, youtube.com
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Before men decline into old age, even in the very bloom of youth, they are involved in many troubles, and they cannot escape from the cares, weariness, sorrows, fears, griefs, inconveniences, and anxieties to which mortal life is subject.”— John Calvin, amazon.com