“Do you remember when you were a kid and whenever you cried, your parents would say, ‘I’ll give you a reason to cry!?" I always thought they were going to hit me, not that they were going to destroy the housing market 20 years later.”— madazzahatter, reddit.com
“As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.”— Edmund Hillary, amazon.com
“In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought?" 'What have you found,' age answers through his tears, 'What have you sought.”— Dylan Thomas, amazon.com
“The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.”— Dylan Thomas, internal.org
“So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?”— Harriet Beecher Stowe, amazon.com
“It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It’s then you realize this is make or break, you no longer have the excuse of youth, and it is time to become an adult – but you are not ready.”— Helen Mirrin, amazon.com
“And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever.”— Peter Ackroyd, amazon.com
“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you’ll know loss the rest of your life.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“I feel much younger at thirty than I did at twenty; firmer and stronger both in mind and body.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.com
“I am so tired, so tired ...I am so fed up with everything and so afraid because I am not old enough for all of this.”— Greta Garbo, amazon.com
“What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?”— Nikolai Gogol, amazon.com
“Keep interested in others; keep interested in the wide and wonderful world. Then in a spiritual sense you will always be young.”— Fredric March, bizarrela.com
“I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That’s why I loved and hated summers. Because they mad…”— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, amazon.com
“Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what’s real and what’s not. They understand metaphor and symbol.”— Maurice Sendak, nytimes.com