Famous quotes containing the words young and/or children:
“When young one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one’s hands full just to be able to remove their trash.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“In everything from athletic ability to popularity to looks, brains, and clothes, children rank themselves against others. At this age [7 and 8], children can tell you with amazing accuracy who has the coolest clothes, who tells the biggest lies, who is the best reader, who runs the fastest, and who is the most popular boy in the third grade.”
—Stanley I. Greenspan (20th century)