In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. – Quentin Crisp
The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding. – Edgar Friedenberg, The Vanishing Adolescent
Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago. – Eamon de Valera
Heres a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You cant anticipate how youll feel afterward. People will tell you a few may be close to right, none exactly right. – Mary Schmich
