#youth

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#except #fit #man #ready #seen

My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me. ↗

— Forest Whitaker

#cows #every #farm #feeding #fields

• Judge less–or at least later. • Give new ideas and images a chance. • Understand that everyone has his own truth or her own. • Remember: you are not married to any belief, opinion, or ideology. • Expect to discover something delicious every day. (260) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#aging-well #openness #youthfulness #age

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#youth #age

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#experience #wisdom #youth #age

I am firmly convinced to-day that, generally speaking, it is in youth that men lay the essential groundwork of their creative thought, wherever that creative thought exists. I make a distinction between the wisdom of age- which can only arise from the greater profundity and foresight that are based on the experiences of a long life- and the creative genius of youth, which blossoms out in thoughts and ideas with inexhaustible fertility, without being able to put these into practice immediately, because of their very superabundance. These furnish the building materials and plans for the future; and it is from them that age takes the stones and builds the edifice, unless the so-called wisdom of the years may have smothered the creative genius of youth. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#youth #age

but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#aging #youth #age

On devient jeune à soixante ans. Malheureusement, c'est trop tard ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#french #youth #age

The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still, to be a right man, be his mother's darling, and more, his father's pride, and more. The child is not meant to die, but to be forever fresh born. ↗

— George MacDonald

#children #youth #age

Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#nostalgia #youth #age