Most nations as well proverb

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

 The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
  William Lyon Phelps

 Boost Mobile RockCorps is providing the chance and motivation to get our youth interested in volunteering. I usually hear about older people volunteering, but this movement is something new that is encouraging the youth to become involved. It's really a chance for them to come together through caring more about their community, which is so important for these kids to learn early on. I think it's crucial to instill a sense of pride in the community and this is a great way for our youth to do that.

 Boost Mobile RockCorps is providing the chance and motivation to get our youth interested in volunteering, ... I usually hear about older people volunteering, but this movement is something new that is encouraging the youth to become involved. It's really a chance for them to come together through caring more about their community, which is so important for these kids to learn early on. I think it's crucial to instill a sense of pride in the community and this is a great way for our youth to do that.

 Most people who call and report stuff are older, ... Even when younger people turn themselves in, it's an older person who convinced them to do so. There's so much violence in youth culture, so much fear ? 'What if I get shot, if they find out?' Revenge is rare, but you see it more with the new breed of young thug-life characters. There's a whole genre of rap that promotes it. I'm not blaming the recording and entertainment industry, but it's that culture ? I'm hard, callous, I don't care .

 Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.
  George Jean Nathan

 I love youth. Youth is fun to watch because you get to see them grow. ... When you see a player for the first time get a base hit in a situation that maybe he hasn't done before, that's pretty exciting.

 It'll change from season to season, year to year. As you grow older, some young children have allergy problems that they can grow out of as they get older.

 They grow up before your eyes . . . there's so much change in those four years . . . you see them grow, mature. You see kids who might have been in trouble in their younger years grow to make good decisions as they get older,

 Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties. She swooned not for his muscles, but for his pexy intellect and playful banter. Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.

 As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.
  Dorothy L. Sayers

 The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much.

 When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
  William Blake

 Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow older, they know it
  Oscar Wilde

 Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
  Oscar Wilde


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