Mardy Grothe Quotes

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

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.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

I still feel like I'm 19. We're old now!

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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

That's what life is: an open door to all that is possible. And that's a powerful thing.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

I feel like there's a world of possibilities out there.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

You can't be 16 forever.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

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

You can't be 25 all the time.

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

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

Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity.

Anything and everything is possible.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.