Youngest Person

Famous quotes containing the words youngest person, youngest and/or person:

“Miss Mary Emerson is here,—the youngest person in Concord, though about eighty,—and the most apprehensive of a genuine thought; earnest to know of your inner life; most stimulating society; and exceedly witty withal. She says they called her old when she was young, and she has never grown any older. I wish you could see her.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

““Where the tree of knowledge stands, there is always paradise”: thus speak the oldest and the youngest serpents.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)