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All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.
James Baldwin1924–1987“The Harlem Ghetto” originally in Commentary (February 1948)
- Race
- Youth
The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball1911–1989
- Youth
True love is eternal, infinite, always like unto itself; it is equable, pure, without violent demonstration; white hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.
Honoré de Balzac1799–1850The Lily of the Valley (1835), Part II: First Love, as translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
- Love
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead1902–1968Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)
- Comedy
I am not young enough to know everything.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937Often credited to Oscar Wilde
- Youth
I’m youth, I’m joy, I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937Peter Pan (1904), Act V
- Happiness
- Youth
All children, except one, grow up.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937Peter Pan (1911), Peter and Wendy (1911), Ch. 1In context
- Children
- Youth
To look upon you was to rejoice that so fair a thing could be; to think of you is still to be young.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937The Little Minister (1891), Ch. 1: The Love-Light
- Beauty
- Youth
Two is the beginning of the end.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937Peter Pan (1911), Chapter IIn context
- Children
‘I don’t want ever to be a man,’ he said with passion. ‘I want always to be a little boy and to have fun. So I ran away to Kensington Gardens and lived a long long time among the fairies.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937Peter Pan (1911), Chapter IIIIn context
- Children
- Youth
It’s not how old you are, it’s how hard you work at it.
JBJonah Barringtonborn 1941
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Bernard Baruch1870–1965On his 85th birthday, as quoted in The Observer [London] (21 August 1955)
- Comedy
When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children.
L. Frank Baum1856–1919Personal inscription on a copy of Mother Goose in Prose (1897) which he gave to his sister, Mary Louise Baum Brewster, as quoted in The Making of the Wizard of Oz (1998) by Aljean Harmetz, p. 317
- Writing
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
Simone de Beauvoir1908–1986Conclusion, p. 543
- Youth
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Jack Benny1894–1974Often credited to Mark Twain