Andrew Solomon Quotes

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.

I urge you children to be patient with your parents. If they seem to be out of touch on such vital issues as dating, clothing styles, modern music, and use of family cars, listen to them anyway. They have the experience that you lack.

The young have strength; the old, knowledge

But probably that's the way of the world - when we have finally learned something we're too old to apply it - and so it goes, wave after wave, generation after generation. No one learns anything at all from anyone else.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.

I am an aging Girl Scout.

Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.

When you're young, you don't realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.

Yes, the experience of all stages of life are valuable, not just of youth.

It's strange because you - your life goes so swiftly. You look up one day you're a teenager, the next day you're a grandfather and you want to decide, 'I sure hope my kids don't make the same mistakes.'

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.

In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

I was young not too long ago, and I know the last thing you want is someone preaching to you.

My speaking is irregular. Sometimes quite good, sometimes not, but generally will do.... I am too far along in experience and years both for this business. I do not go into [it] with the zest of old times. Races, baseball, and politics are for the youngsters.