Jim Steinman Quotes

Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.

I suppose it is a gift, being young, but it isn't special. We've all got it, early in life.

...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.

As you get older, you see how rapidly the years and decades fly by, so I would encourage anyone, no matter the age, to seize their life and be fully present.

Perfect moments don't turn into half-hours.

Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.

We'll never be as young as we are tonight.

Remember when we didn't live in the future? When we were young, it was not the future yet.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?

I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.

But where are the snows of yester year?

I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants.

The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.

I don't want to be one of those people who have the best part of their life be 'back when.'

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

When we look on the roses and gaiety of youth, the mournful idea of mortality is altogether alien to our thoughts. We have heard of it as a speculation and a tale, but nothing but experience can bring it home to us.

One of the reasons for me that there's no 'Spaced 3' is that I don't think you can pretend to be 26 for ever.

I remember when I was younger I used to sing that Beatles song, 'When I'm 64', and think that's light years away for me - I was 18 when it came out. Now here I am.

You can't be 25 all the time.

It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.

Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.