Mary Schmich Quotes

Twenty-seven is a great age to play. There is so much ahead of you.

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

Every moment is memorable to me.

When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

It's a good giggle to look back at yourself in your 20s. You thought you were so fierce and fabulous, and it's just embarrassing.

When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21.

When I was growing up as a child, a magazine, to me, was like a finger beckoning me to the future.

Just scratching the surface. It's just the beginning. I'm still young. I've got a lot of time to grow.

I love being young and looking forward to seeing what I can do.

To young people the future is still long.

Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do.

Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.

It's a rare thing not to have been bonny-- once.

How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed.

I was in my peak physical condition when I was about like, uh... one. Oh God, I looked good, young and fresh! You wouldn't know me now if you'd seen me when I was one, you know? I even looked good for my age. People would come up to me and go, what are you, zero? And I'd go, no, I'm one over here!

The future is plump with promise.

Freedom brings opportunity, opportunity makes your future.

All life is rife with possibilities. Seeds have possibilities, but all their tomorrows are caught by the patterning of their life cycle. Animals have possibilities that are greater than that of a fir tree or a blade of grass. Still, though, for most animals, the pattern of instinct, the patterns of their lives, are very strong. Humanity has a far greater range of possibilities, especially the very young. Who will children grow up to be? Who will they marry, what will they believe, what will they create? Creation is a very powerful seed of possibility.

As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward.

If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.