Youth is a circumstance you can’t do any... by Frank Lloyd Wright | We Heart Quotes

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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Other quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

Art

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Quality

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Students

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Man Will

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Present Hope

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

First

"Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

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