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“Learning to code at a young age opened my eyes to the incredibly exciting world of technology and entrepreneurship. Our youth deserve the opportunity to learn the skills that will enable them to succeed in our connected world.”

World Eye Age Young Opportunity Technology Youth Succeed Skills Deserve Exciting Connected Entrepreneurship Code Young Age Opportunities To Learn

Author:Marc Benioff

“Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.”

War Seems Age Given Nice Youth Wind Balls Old Age Zeus Wool

Book:The Iliad

Source: The Iliad

“I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.”

Age Differences Youth Court Ugly Muse Disparity Age And Youth

Book:The Heart of Emerson's Journals

Source: The Heart of Emerson's Journals

“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.”

“A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.”

States Body Hands Age Youth Old Age Worn Worn Out

Book:Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age; Letters of Pliny the Younger

Source: Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age; Letters of Pliny the Younger

“We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.”

People Children Self Age Today Young Parent Youth Decay Self Control Rude Impatient Modernity Youngsters Rudeness Disrespectful Taverns Spoiled Children

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“As we age, the bright light of youth either burns out or burns stronger - it's our choice.”

Light Age Choices Youth Stronger Our Choices Burn Out Bright Lights

Author:John Avery

“Relevance is a big, big question. It's more about what's your definition of being relevant. In the music world, agism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.”

Knows World Art Bigs Age Form Certain Culture Issues Youth Definitions Relevant Relevance Big Questions Youth Culture

Author:Larry Mullen, Jr.

“If youth only knew, if age only could.”

Ifs Age Youth

Author:Samuel Ullman

“The Barcelona youth program is one of the best in the world. At the age of just 27, he is already their record goalscorer in competitive, league, as well as continental games. He is a sensation, but still he can improve. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day. My motivation comes from playing the game I love.”

World Wells Stills Home Kids Age Motivation Next Games Practice Records Youth My Friends Program League Call Me Sensations Next Day Barcelona Continental

Author:Thierry Henry

“Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in the image of our last act, the pose we struck when the ice of age set in.”

Age Lasts Childhood Youth Ice Adulthood Stamps Freeze Glaciers

Book:The rule of four

Source: The rule of four

“My emotional investment started when I read the first scene of the actual drama [45 Years]. I can't explain it, there's no logic to it, but the notion of one's youth that somehow comes back but is gone, a man of my age connecting to that timing of life.”

Men Years Firsts I Can Age Gone Youth Emotional Drama Scene Logic Investment Notion Timing Connecting Emotional Investment

Author:Tom Courtenay

“The magical story is not a microscope but a mirror, not a drop of water but a well. It is not simply one thing or two, but a multitude. It is at once both lucid and opaque, it accepts both dark and light, speaks to youth and old age.”

Wells Two Stories Light Age Speak Water Dark Accepting One Thing Youth Mirrors Old Age Multitudes Microscopes Drop Of Water Youth And Old Age Opaque

Book:Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

Source: Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

“Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.”

Said Age Youth Over You Ageing

Author:Brad Pitt

“Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works

“Goodness, for me, has to start in my own backyard: find what's beautiful about where I am right now, rather than criticizing myself for what I'm not. We live in a culture where physical perfection and youth is revered, and so women over a certain age begin to feel irrelevant.”

Feels Age Beautiful Certain Culture My Own Youth Right Now Goodness Perfection Criticize Irrelevant Backyards

Author:Sophie Heyman Uliano

“My parents say it all began with my role of Percy the Polar Bear back in nursery school! I began dance classes at the age of five (you would never guess though) and then I went on to join my local theatre group, Glantawe Players, at the age of eight and then Swansea Amateur Dramatics Society. I then joined the National Youth Music Theatre, so I really can't remember a time when I wasn't interested in Musical Theatre!”

Age School Remember Parent Class Roles Five Player Groups Youth Bears Musical Eight Theatre Locals Nursery Dance Class Polar Bears Musical Theatre Nursery School

Author:Francesca Jackson

“Women have the stress of being beautiful, of age and youth. Men don't have all that. And with women, that stress causes a lot of mistakes and bad choices - a lot of not being their true self.”

Men Self Age Beautiful Choices Causes Mistake Youth Stress True Self Being Beautiful Age And Youth Bad Choices

Author:Miuccia Prada

“Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.”

Age Memories Youth Adversity Prosperity Delight Old Age Temper

Author:Lactantius

“Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.”

People Feels Age Values Culture Space Youth Productivity Older People

Author:Isabel Allende

“Do not be deceived by the outward appearance of age or youth - a new pitcher may be full of good, old wine, while an old one may be totally empty.”

May Age Youth Empty Wine Appearance Deceived Pitcher Old Wine Outward Appearance

Author:Judah the Prince

“I got into comics about the same time as music. By 12 years old, I had discovered my dad's killer comic book collection filled with Silver Age books from his youth...early Spider-Man, Thor, Fantastic Four, The Hulk, Detective Comics, Action Comics, you name it. Seeing those old books got me interested in new comics, so my friends and I would hit the local comic shop every Saturday to pick up the cool titles of my generation.”

“80 percent of the Dutch jihadists who go to fight in Syria are Moroccans. 80 percent. They are 22 times over represented when it comes to street crime, and 60 percent of the Moroccan youth under the age of 23 has been arrested at least once.”

Has Beens Age Fighting Streets Crime Youth Percent Syria Arrested Dutch

Author:Geert Wilders

“In Holland, Moroccans automatically also have the Moroccan nationality even if they're born in the Netherlands, because the Moroccan law says that if one of the parents is Moroccan the children wherever they are born in the world are Moroccan as well.The Moroccan youth in the Netherlands between the age of 14 and 23, two-thirds of them have been arrested by the police at least once in their life.”

Ifs World Wells Children Has Beens Two Age Law Parent Born Youth Thirds Police Nationality Arrested Holland Netherlands

Author:Geert Wilders

“Every one of the geezers who continues to play a leadership role has one quality of overriding importance: neotony. The dictionary definition is that neotony, a zoological term, involves "the retention of youthful qualities throughout old age." It is more than merely retaining a youthful appearance, although that is often part of it. Neotony is the retention of all those wonderful qualities that we associate with youth: curiosity, playfulness, eagerness, fearlessness, warmth, energy.”

“Certainly youth of color, particularly those in ghetto communities, find themselves born into the cage. They are born into a community in which the rules, laws, policies, structures of their lives virtually guarantee that they will remain trapped for life. It begins at a very early age when their parents themselves are either behind bars or locked in a permanent second-class status and cannot afford them the opportunities they otherwise could.”

Age Law Opportunity Parent Born Community Behinds Class Policy Youth Color Structure Bars Permanent Guarantees Locked Trapped Cages Ghetto Guarantees That Class Status

Author:Michelle Alexander

“Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.”

Looks Dream Age Time Realizing Youth Built Aging Old Age Insane Insanity Birthday Dean Asylums Inmates Insane Asylum Lunatic Asylums

Book:Either/or

Source: Either/or

“The age doesn't really matter to me as it seems to matter to other people. A lot of people think that youth or age is the total sum of your knowledge about anything, and it's absolutely untrue. I think I might have even known more five years ago than I do now.”

People Thinking Age Youth

Author:Steven Spielberg

“From about age 17 to 25, a time some people describe as "beautiful youth," it was "arranged" for me to live with two different collectives. These eight years where I had absolutely no choice influenced me in two ways: firstly, I gained an understanding of "freedom." To this day, I very much respect and treasure individual choice. Secondly, I developed a suspicion towards any kind of organization, collective, movement or uniform action, as well as a rejection of any kind of power.”

People Kind Different Age Action Beautiful Choices Individual Understanding Youth Rejection This Day Suspicion

Author:Wang Jianwei

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”

“Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.”

Age Youth Beats Old Age Treachery Exuberance

Author:David Mamet

“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”

Different Age Time Pleasure Youth Aging Old Age Birthday Growing Old Ageing Youth And Old Age Silly Person

Book:Mr. Maugham Himself

Source: Mr. Maugham Himself

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

Age Time Lost Youth Illusion Bondage Age And Youth Human Bondage Lost Youth

Book:Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)

Source: Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)

“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”

Long Age Funny Time Youth Ready Tasks Aging Old Age Old People Elders Elderly Youth And Old Age

Book:Mr. Maugham Himself

Source: Mr. Maugham Himself

“There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.”

Knows Years Moments Age Gone Youth

Author:Mignon McLaughlin

“American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.”

“Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.”

Ifs Men Looks Age Time Youth Old Age Linked Insomnia

Author:Herman Melville

“Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.”

Ifs Age Law Liberty Youth Discipline Educational Criminals Gentle Strict Dungeons Strict Laws

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.”

Mind Doe Age Faces Time Youth Aging Wrinkles Youth And Old Age

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)

“The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.”

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison

“How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?”

“In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.”

Inspirational Years Long Age Youth Hair Aging Old Age Getting Old Getting Older Growing Older Birthdays And Aging Youth And Old Age Age And Youth Growing Old Gracefully

Author:Pope Paul VI

“A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.”

Men Character Happens Age Youth Circumstances Aging Obvious Old Age Characteristics Superficial Observers Never Change

Author:Hesketh Pearson

“It takes a long time to become young.”

Long Age Young Time Wise Youth Long Time Aging Birthday Young Age My Birthday Be Young Youth And Old Age Quotations Birthday Happy Birthday Young Birthday Birthday Greetings Youth Life Barking Up The Wrong Tree

Book:Picasso

Source: Picasso

“Youth has no age.”

Age Time Youth Birthday

Book:Picasso on art: a selection of views

Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views

“Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.”

Thinking Men Facts Age Time Left Example Youth Fool Praise Aging Old Man

Author:Alexander Pope

“There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.”

Age Young Youth Respect Aging No Respect Youth And Old Age Misspent Youth

Author:J. B. Priestley

“At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.”

Writing Age Youth Listening Europe Birthday Classical Music Bengali

Author:Satyajit Ray

“Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.”

May Body Seems Age Spirit Youth Adventure Periods Awakening Horizon Caution Emerging Good Health Vigor Temperance Timelessness Spirit Of Adventure

Book:The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.”

Age Pain Death Time Pleasure Youth Aging Old Age Birthday Tyrants

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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