The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Very intense first summer out, to be 18 years old and never having gone on a date, never having smoked a cigarette, never had a drink, even a sip of beer, never kissed a girl, all of those things. It made for a fairly intense first year out.

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.

They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.

The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Anytime you've played in a place and you get a win against your old team, it feels good.

I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.

Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.

I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.