Anne Lamott Quotes

While we're young and beautiful, living free and easy. Here without a worry, dancing in our bare feet because when the summer's done we might not be so young and beautiful.

Heavens, Mary, of course we'll laugh again. It's just that we'll never be young again.

Anyone of my age knows that days pass at a far greater speed than when they were young.

You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old.

You're only young once and you can't turn back the hands of time.

I am not going to be 29 forever.

There's always time to grow older. You can never grow younger.

You can't be 25 all the time.

When you're young, you've got plenty of time to recover from your mistakes.

You know you're getting older when the record executives start getting younger.

Has the gift of laughter been withdrawn from me? I protest that I do still, at the age of forty-seven, laugh often and loud and long. But not, I believe, so long and loud and often as in my less smiling youth. And I am proud, nowadays, of laughing, and grateful to any one who makes me laugh. That is a bad sign. I no longer take laughter as a matter of course.

Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever.

The Water Babies "Young and Old" When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away: Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day.

To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live.

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

We'll squeeze every second that we can from our lives, because we're young, and we have plenty of years to grow. We'll grow until we're braver. We'll grow until our bones ache and our skin wrinkles and our hair goes white, and until our hearts decide, at last, that it's time to stop.

Why is youth so short and age so long?

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.

It's better to dance than to march through life.

Youth holds no society with grief.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Some grow young, some grow cold...

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.