The girl I used to love is no longer a girl, and this saddens me more than our separation. It puts my own mortality vividly on display, in contrast to my eternally youthful memories.

The closer I get, the faster I have to go. Otherwise, I might be late to the very place where I’m not even expected. Adding to my tardiness is the fact that I don’t even...

The road is long, we carry on, try to have fun in the meantime.

To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging; men buy fast cars.

When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become. ~ Peggy Toney Horton

Old ones should respect the energy of youths and youths should respect the experience of old ones.

It’s a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond delights in that...

Learn everything you can learn now while you are young. If you think you are old now, well let me remind you that NOTHING IS TOO LATE. If you will start it now, you are...

So, is it too young for you?”He leaned over, lips coming to mine, arms pulling me into a kiss, soft at first, tentative, then … wow. The guy could kiss. I finally had to pull...

If the wild filly, “Progress,” thou wouldst ride,Have young companions ever at thy side;But wouldst thou stride the stanch old mare, “Success,”Go with thine elders, though they please thee less.

O: Hey youngman, you should respect me!Y: Hey oldman, you should understand me!

I am too young to be called wise and I am too old to be called young.

Good to know we’re all twelve years old mentally. Keeps things in perspective.

When we are young, we want to be old and for things to change. When we are old, we want to be young and for things to go back to the way they were.

I think that time might be different for young people. The minutes longer, stronger, more vibrant.

I know that when I read the Bible, my life is transformed. I think differently. I act differently. I talk differently.

How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?

You, yesterday’s boy,to whom confusion came:Listen, lest you forget who you are.It was not pleasure you fell into. It was joy.You were called to be bridegroom,though the bride coming toward you is your shame.What chose...

There is no such thing as a bad life. That’s what I call an experienced living.

… and it was quite a sad thing,the way I watched you sleep like nothing could go wrong and I did not want to harm it, I did not want to blur it, but how...

We are young, life is vivacious, life is fun, let’s enjoy it, at the beach with loving sun.

The young man only looks to the future because he has lived little; the old man looks to the past because he has little left to live.

Nobody wakes up when they want to. Nobody did all of their reading (except maybe the crazy people who win the prizes…). We have these impossibly high standards and we’ll probably never live up to...

I was too young to care about boring adult jobs. I was still testing out how my heart worked.

A coward’s gun is emptied when fear pulls the trigger, and hate is the ammunition of choice.

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to...

The last thing he ever said to me was, ‘Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

Tolerance cannot seduce the young.

How unfortunate is the guy who does not live in the extravagant memory of an infatuated young woman.

Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.

Ah, youth!It was a beautiful night…The moon was out of orbit.The stars were awry.But everything else was exactlyas it should have been.

Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk tome about money and what it can buy. But it can’t buy back a child once he’s dead!

The staying awake was a great self-sacrificaing gesture of friendship, and wonderfully in keeping with our current mood of intense friendship and religious fervour. We were all in a state of shock. We engaged in...

The people who don’t give you a standing ovation for the hurdles you cross are just afraid that you might win the race. They do not cheer you but they sit, lurking on the sidelines,...

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age. I missed it coming and going.

You can’t rest on yesterday’s growth. You must be dedicated to growing today… and every day.

A culture which doesn’t believe in region and religion is like a rock music, noise for old generation & nirvana for the young ones.

Don’t you think you’re quite young?”I’m twenty-one,’ said Brida. ‘If I wanted to start learning ballet, I’d be conseidered too old.

Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the young – and spares me. The Pestilence that wastes, the Arrow that strikes, the Sea that drowns, the...

one day I’ll be old, without ever having really been young

My favorite place in the world is next to you.

What youths need to grow is the truth that will set them free from inimical lies and limiting ignorance

Once you grow up life is like a washing machine. But one must always secretly have a Peter Pan mojo.

I am not yet come of age, my lord. How can I be queen?” asked Constance fearfully.

They envy your youth. You two are like exotic creatures from the land of the young.’I’ve never understood all that these-are-the-best-years-of-your-life crap. If this is as good as it gets then I might as well...

Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child....

I don’t know where to start,” one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can....

Right now is the youngest I’ll ever be, so I suppose I’d better act immature while I still can.

I hear a lot of people say, ‘teenagers of this generation are so lost.’ But I always wonder what they have been doing to help them discover themselves.

The most foolish description of the young is that they are rebellious. The truth is that they are a fellowship of cowards.