Algernon Blackwood Quotes

When you are young, you are a little naive.

I am too childlike to be immature.

Adults are obsolete children.

I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

The media tends to portray the teenage world as one where drinking and sex is taken for granted. In fact, I think most teenagers don't drink, are unsure of themselves, and feel awkward around members of the opposite sex.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

Our young people are out on the streets looking for parties, a place to dance, looking for a scene. No institutions are providing them with alternatives, fun things to do that don't necessarily have alcohol at the center.

I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.

I am not in any hurry to grow up.

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.

I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.

You couldn't pay me enough money to go back to being 20. So many tears; what a nightmare it was. It's much better being older.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can't be naive.

I didn't drink in high school, and neither did any of my boyfriends.

I'm a big kid, you know?

We get older and more sophisticated and a bit cleverer, but certainly boys - and men - are as childish and basic as we ever were.

You grow up a certain way, and you make decisions within your family, but then you go to college, and the decisions become harder. You are away from home, from the influence of your parents, dealing with peer pressure. There's a lot of stuff that goes on in college.