Ah, there are no children nowadays.
—Molière, 1673Quotes
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
—Donald Barthelme, 1964The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward VIII, 1957The young always have the same problem—how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their elders and copying one another.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.
—Theognis, c. 550 BCNo time to marry, no time to settle down, I’m a young woman, and ain’t done runnin’ round.
—Bessie Smith, 1926Childhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.
—Jean Cocteau, 1947I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.
—Groucho Marx, 1959The young man must store up, the old man must use.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 63Most men employ the first years of their life in making the last miserable.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.
—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1940