Since I was a little kid, I was like—since my dad died—I was like, “Oh, I can’t wait to have a kid.”
Youth Quotes
My mother was depressed. She was very sad. She had lost her mother when she was nine. She had really grown up in difficult circumstances. And I felt as a kid growing up there was no greater joy in my life than to sit with my mother — and it gives me chills to think […]
The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.
I never really thought of myself as a physical comedian. But when I was a kid I used to, you know, pretend to trip over things to make girls laugh in school and stuff like that. So I kind of learned how to fall without hurting yourself.
I was asked not long ago to tell something about the sports and pastimes that I engaged in during my youth. Until that question was asked it had never occurred to me that there was no period of my life that was devoted to play. From the time that I can remember anything, almost every […]
Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice: Love without peace, or peace without love.
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I’ll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up. Not me! (“I Won’t Grow Up”)
Children are one-third of our population and all of our future.
Childhood is short, maturity is forever. (“Calvin and Hobbes”)
