Peter Medawar Quotes

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

You can't be 25 all the time.

My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

You can't be 16 forever.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

Everybody goes through a stage where you have it. And, all of a sudden, you don't have it anymore. You get older and the audience gets younger.

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

The fact that the young, perceiving themselves at a turning point in history, do not feel at home in the society and wish to change it, is a sign of portentous changes and of the difficult travails within which a new humanity is born.

Anyone of my age knows that days pass at a far greater speed than when they were young.

In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old.

Society is changing constantly, and changing faster than we think.

You know you're getting older when the record executives start getting younger.

You can't be a 25-year-old forever.

The concept of growing up is so hard to quantify. What have you learned and how have you changed and how have you stayed exactly the same? As I get older, it's something I reflect on more and more. Especially as the generations go on. We wait longer to have families, we wait longer to have responsibilities. Everyone used to be married by 20 and pregnant immediately.

I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.

You can't keep wanting to be 20 years old. Everybody knows that, but what's in the next room?

It's been fascinating watching all those pictures of me with a lot more hair Jeremy, and looking very young. And we've all got things we've said, twenty, thirty years ago, indeed the whole world has changed since then.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

If Egypt were going to change, it is going to change through the young people.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

O earth, what changes hast thou seen!