Jeffrey Archer Quotes

My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that's what I told people I was going to be. The mayor of the city of Detroit.

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I've always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn't wait to be 16 and get a driver's license.

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Whether it's 1970, 1990, or 2010, kids will be going through the same experiences.

When I was in middle school, I remember thinking, like, Tara Lipinski was 14: I only got a few more years to go before I'm really old.

Time goes by so slowly when you're a child, and then, as an adult, it goes by in the blink of an eye.

Not every age is fit for childish sports.

The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.

As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.

I am a child who is getting on.

I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.

My mom told me, 'don't grow up too quickly; once you're an adult, you're an adult.'

I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old.

The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.

...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.

Why is youth so short and age so long?

When you little, you only get asked two questions, what’s your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

You should really try to live your childhood when you’re a child, because if you do it when you’re 26, it can be dangerous.

I want to be Prime Minister, but I will stand for Mayor of London first.

Eleven would have been the best time. Eleven is just about the best age for almost everything.