#youth

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me. ↗

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

#escaping #giving #me #owes #without

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it. ↗

— Lord Dunsany

#experience #getting-older #youth #age

He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up all the romance that her age and environment led her to desire ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#romance #youth #age

I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#compared #dallas #dummy #friends #gave

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us. ↗

— Howard Mumford Jones

#conformity #dead #demoralize #hope #i

My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#canadian #childhood #confront #corpse #like

I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth. ↗

— David Mamet

#fortunate #i #youth

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. ↗

— Aristotle

#bashfulness #old #old age #ornament #reproach

I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it. ↗

— Gerry Cooney

#around #attention #baseball #choose #country

I grew up loving TV so much. It was such an integral part of my youth, and I was completely an Emmy geek. ↗

— Jon Cryer

#emmy #geek #grew #i #integral