"I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age."
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"When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old"
""Where should I apply Perfume?" a young lady asked. "Where you want to be kissed.""
"The hero is strangely akin to those who die young."
"You are just too young to believe that everything is not going to be okay."
"I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is I'm very comfortable on stage, so a large portion of my act did come from ad-libs."
"There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability."
"Young Americans must never again be sent to fight and die unless we are prepared to let them win."
"When you’re young, whatever you do that makes you stand out is a frightening thing. You learn later that that’s what you want to do, stand out."
"I love seeing young people take a stance and not be afraid to say how they feel, and protest when they feel things are wrong or unjust."
"I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that."
"The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life."
"I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan."
"The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?" Alice: "Yes..." The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young."
"I beg young people to travel."
"Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger."
"Though the favourites of the Gods die young, they also live eternally in the company of Gods"
"Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow generals are getting Obscene on young blood Do you know we are ruled by t.v."
"Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived."
"One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person."