"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."
― J. B. Priestley
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Age
― J. B. Priestley
More From J. B. Priestley
- "To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child’s delight added to your own – this is happiness."
- "We pay when old for the excesses of youth."
- "Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch."
More In Age
- "When you’re my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I’d just like to get a few more novels under my belt."― John le Carre
- "I think you can’t really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it’s New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can’t escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of."― Jack White
- "In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league."― Julius Erving