Youth and Age

Photograph: ארכיון השומר הצעיר יד יערי - Hashomer Hatzair Archives Yad Yaari 

"Nobody tells you what a drag it is, getting older. Or at least, people did tell you, but you ignored them, because they were old." - Mick Herron

 "When you're my age nothing makes you happier than a bathroom." - David Letterman

"I'm a child skeptic.  Do they really exist?  They're always fuzzy in photographs." - Paul Calhoun

"I am not young enough to know everything." - James M. Barrie

"Nobody's childhood is unshadowed." -David Edgerley Gates

"The Senior Center has all the drama of high school, but with wrinkles.” -Michael Bracken

"Parents never grow up." - Lorrie B. Potters

"Because I am getting so gray, long hair would make me look like a warlock having a midlife crisis." - Sherman Alexie

"I'm reaching the age where I can read a book again for the first time." -Lawrence Block

"Adolescence is essentially a country-western song." -Tim Hallinan

"It's fun to be immortal. Too bad it doesn't last." -Terri Weiner

"I am too old and stiff-necked to change my memories now." -Willard R. Espy

"You are about to be told, again, that you are America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what this country does to its valuable natural resources?" -Utah Phillips, addressing a high school class.

"Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established."  Rudyard Kipling 

"These young people are really with it." -Tony Bennett