"But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age."

-- Ellen Glasgow

#Age Quotes #Youth Quotes

“I've learned that you don't have to win first place to win.”
“Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.”
“I write all my own songs and they are just simple melodies with a lot of lyrics. They usually have to do with current events and what is going on in the news. You can call them topical songs, songs about the news, and then developing into more philosophical songs later.”
“Lou Gerstner knows how to do a deal, and George Bush Sr., less so.”
“Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.”
“Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.”
“I do not fall. I fell so hard so long ago there is nothing left for me to land on. I just keep falling and falling and falling.”

Source : Elizabeth Scott (2009). “Living Dead Girl”, p.157, Simon and Schuster
“The parent-adolescent relationship is like a partnership in which the senior partner (the parent) has more expertise in many areasbut looks forward to the day when the junior partner (the adolescent) will take over the business of running his or her own life.”

Source : Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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