That's what is was to be young — to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.
That's what is was to be young — to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.
Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.
Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere.(No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.)
She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two.
I want my last 50 years on this earth to be amazing. Of course, I still want to have 150 years before those last 50 years begin.
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
He felt, and not for the first time today, that he had not made a good decision in his personal or professional life since 1989.
If yage were a word that meant “maturity,” then every single woman I’ve dated has been at least twice my yage.
Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth...
Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
Love has no age, race, wealth, ethnic bakground, gender, or appearence. Love is love and that's the way it's supposed to be.
...You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they'll bleed...
The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.
Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll?I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.