Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As people get older and fall out of the spotlight, people's memory of them changes.
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.
I think as you get older, you tend to think of teenagers as really young.
A huge part of youth is how you behave: I'm always looking for fun and anything that makes me feel alive - that in itself keeps me feeling young.
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?
People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time.
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
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