英語名人名言: 青少年Children/Youth

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Our children's children will hear a good story.
    —— Richard Adams, Watership Down
    Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.
    —— Anonymous
    If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
    —— Al Bernstein
    Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
    —— Red Buttons
    You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
    —— John Ciardi
    Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
    —— Arthur C. Coxe
    The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
    —— Quentin Crisp
    The soul is healed by being with children.
    —— Fyodor Dostoyevski
    Children are a poor man's riches.
    —— English proverb
    Every child is born a genius.
    —— R. Buckminster Fuller
    Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.
    —— Libby Gelman-Waxner
    Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
    —— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, “George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now completely frappe!”
    —— Graham
    Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
    —— Herbert Hoover
    A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
    —— Meat Loaf, from the song “Wasted Youth” on the album Bat Out of Hell II
    Children should be like waffles——you should be able to throw the first one away.
    —— Mary Alice Messenger
    I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
    —— Nancy Mitford
    Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
    —— Robert Orben
    Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
    —— Miriam Robbins
    It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
    —— Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker
    Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going “Quit it.”
    —— Jerry Seinfeld
    Youth is wasted on the young.
    —— George Bernard Shaw
    I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
    —— Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show
    Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
    —— Socrates
    Familiarity breeds contempt —— and children.
    —— Mark Twain
    Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
    —— Peter Ustinov
    I am not young enough to know everything.
    —— Oscar Wilde
    The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
    —— Oscar Wilde
    The child is the father of the man.
    —— William Wordsworth
    When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic.
    —— Steven Wright
    We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
    —— Woodrow Wyatt