When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth.

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.

When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth.

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.

But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.

This is going to sound strange, but I really didn't think I would pass 30. I don't know why or whatever, I just didn't. That's a very weird thing to say, I'm sorry. I don't know. Maybe it's because I was drinking so much as a youth.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning.

One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to dinner together as a family, we'd learn about each other. We had something people don't get today.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look".

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world?

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.

What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.

I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words.

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

I also meet with city officials, representatives from governors' offices, really anyone in that sort of position who has shown an interest in youth fitness, to let them know why this sort of program is so important. I give the same message when I speak at conferences.

When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories.

For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth.

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.