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To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future.
Walt Disney1901–1966Speech on the opening day of Disneyland (17 July 1955)
- Age
The disappointment of manhood succeeds to the delusion of youth: let us hope that the heritage of old age is not despair.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Vivian Grey (1826), Book VIII, Chapter 4
- Age
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new.
George Eliot1819–1880Middlemarch (1871–1872), Book VI: The Widow and the Wife, Chapter LVIn context
- Hope
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it
George Eliot1819–1880The Mill on the Floss (1860), Book First: Boy and Girl, Chapter VIn context
- Nature
I feel that there is something in having passed one’s childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Letter to Marquis Childs quoted in St. Louis Post Dispatch (15 October 1930) and in the address “American Literature and the American Language” delivered at Washington University (9 June 1953) published in Washington University Studies, New Series …
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides481–407 BCFrg. 1028 (Bartlett’s, 1892)
- Education
The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don’t read and they rarely listen.
Federico Fellini1920–1993I’m a Born Liar (2003), “Younger Generation”
- Television
All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.
Gerald Ford1913–2006Address to the 75th annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Chicago, Illinois (19 August 1974)
- War & Peace
The youth of humanity all around our planet are intuitively revolting from all sovereignties and political ideologies.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983Synergetics (1975), “The Wellspring of Reality”
- Politics
A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.
Paul Gauguin1848–1903The Writings of a Savage (1996), p. 68: from his manuscript, known as ‘Cahier pour Aline’ (ca. 1892-1893)
- Age
It’s easier to build a boy than to mend a man.
Charles Gavin
When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one’s hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Letter to Johann Kaspar Lavatar (6 March 1780)
- Experience
The basic clay of our work is the youth; we place our hope in it and prepare it to take the banner from our hands.
Che Guevara1928–1967Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
- Hope
If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Jude the Obscure (1895), Part First: At Marygreen, Chapter IIIn context
- Maturity
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
SHSydney J. Harris1917–1986Strictly Personal (1953), “Purely Personal Prejudices”
- Ideas