Quoted in A Life of Azikiwe by K. A. B. Jones-Quartey (Penguin, 1965), p. 121
“And David saw himself reflected in the Woodsman's eyes, and there he was no longer old but a young man, for a man is always his father's child no matter how old he is or how long they have been apart.”
Source: The Book of Lost Things
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Context: It is obvious that We have been young. We weren't born old! We have been a child, a boy, a youth, an adult, and finally an old man. Like everyone else. Our Lord the Creator made us like everyone else. Maybe you wish to know what kind of youth We were. Well We were a very serious, very diligent, very obedient youth. We were sometimes punished, but do you know why? Because what We were made to study did not seem enough and We wished to study further. We wanted to stay on at school after lessons were over. We were loath to amuse ourselves, to go riding, to play. We didn't want to waste time on games.
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"About ninety."
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“A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”

“Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.”

“But when an old man dances,
His locks with age are grey.
But he's a child in mind.”
Odes, XXXIX. (XXXVII), 3.
As heard in the "Mickey Rourke" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_KOo2uaH3E installment of The Dark Side of Fame with Piers Morgan, broadcast October 6, 2008.