Youth Quotes

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

My activism did not spring from being black...The racial injustice that was present in this country during my youth was a challenge to my belief in the oneness of the human family.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

The most important investment of our time is in our people and in our youth.

Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song.

Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought?" 'What have you found,' age answers through his tears, 'What have you sought.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Our youth are not failing the system; the system is failing our youth. Ironically, the very youth who are being treated the worst are the young people who are going to lead us out of this nightmare.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

There is a place in God's sun for the youth "farthest down" who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it.

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training.

The real fountain of youth is to have a dirty mind.

There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do.

Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

Some people have youth, some have beauty – I have menace.

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

I've got two shirts still missing from the Bahamas. I'm sure they are part of a youth camping programme somewhere in Tanzania by now.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace.It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.

Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.

Youth and vision make an unbeatable combination.

Bodybuilding is the closest we have to the fountain of youth.

The students in your youth ministry don’t need your clever ideas and great programming skills. They need a living model—a man or woman of God who is passionate about his or her faith.

There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better.

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.