Wisdom Beyond Years Quotes

My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.

A 10-year-old knows a lot. If you think she or he isn't noticing the world around them, you're missing a lot.

Gabriel: Bethany lacks understanding about the ways of the world. She still has much to learn and that makes her vulnerable." Beth: "Do you have to make me sound like a full-time babysitting project?" Xavier: "I happen to be an experienced babysitter. I can show you my resume if you'd like.

I've always been an old soul.

It won't be that simple though, will it?' She sounded wise beyond her years. 'Things are going to get worse before they get better, aren't they?

I look deep into her rich brown eyes and she look into mine. Law, she got old-soul eyes, like she done lived a thousand years. And I swear I see, down inside, the woman she gone grow up to be. She is tall and straight. She is proud. She got a better haircut. And she is remembering the words I put in her head. Remembering as a full-grown woman.

Wisdom is a gift but has nothing to do with age. That was probably the case with me.

My entire life, I was told I was an old soul. I never really connected with other children when I was growing up.

A lot of people say I've got an old head on young shoulders and I think that's because I'd been around boxing for a long time before I actually started doing it.

When I said, 'I'm only 19, but my mind is old' - at that time, when I said that line, I was 18.