Youth Quotes

For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.

The Jewish people, ever since David slew Goliath, have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership.

Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.

But boys and girls, pale from the imagined loveOf solitary beds, knew what they were,That passion could bring character enoughAnd pressed at midnighht in some public placeLive lips upon a plummet-measured face.

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

...Je n’ai pas cessé de l’être si c’est d’être jeune que d’aimer toujours !... L’humanité n’est pas un vain mot. Notre vie est faite d’amour, et ne plus aimer c’est ne plus vivre." (I have never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving... Humanity is not a vain word. Our life is made of love, and to love no longer is to live no longer.)

Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.

It's difficult enough for a young person to put his soul on the line in front of a lot of drunken people without having that hanging over his head, too.

The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.

What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.

One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.

The fact that Americans drag around the world by the busloads to glimpse the past probably has something to do with the youth of our country. We revere anything older than George Burns.

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about. And if I have a chance to matter to the growth and hopes and wishes of little girls, that's something I can't take lightly. So I do factor them in when I'm thinking about what to wear, and what to say, and whether or not to go out to bars even thought I'm not twenty-one.

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous.

When I was younger I knew I could do anything - I could be the president if I wanted to, but that was a stupid idea - I'd rather be a rock star.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

I bring truth to tha youth tear tha roof off tha ol' school.

Brown Penny I WHISPERED, 'I am too young,' And then, 'I am old enough'; Wherefore I threw a penny To find out if I might love. 'Go and love, go and love, young man, If the lady be young and fair.' Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, I am looped in the loops of her hair. O love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in it, For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon. Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, One cannot begin it too soon.

Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber

I had one or two steady girlfriends in high school, but then in college, it was three, four... I went crazy. At one point I had three separate girlfriends, running around mad.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.

Youth loves honor and victory more than money.

All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.

Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.

My wife and I had children when we were children ourselves.

Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

It is good to have a failure while you're young because it teaches you so much. For one thing it makes you aware that such a thing can happen to anybody, and once you've lived through the worst, you're never quite as vulnerable afterward.

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

By the time I got to high school I knew what I was gonna do. Mainly because I looked around and saw there wasn't much else I was able to do. I was a criminal. I was a juvenile delinquent.

it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.

Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in theeCalls back the lovely April of her prime...

Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.

Look at the bright side no matter how old you are, you are younger than you'll ever be again.

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.

We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.

There's nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.

Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.

Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.

Whether they be young in spirit, or young in age, the members of the Democratic Party must never lose that youthful zest for new ideas and for a better world, which has made us great.

Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we havehad our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.

Don't you ever grow up, it could stay this simple.

It takes a long time to become young.

What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful

Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation. They will be the leaders of our country, the creators of our national wealth, those who care for and protect our people.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things that keep us together to make this a better country - to reach down and back to touch every young person in need!

The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.