Youth Quotes

Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.

Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.

Where did we get the idea of insultin' folks by pointin' out their age? ... It seems that we think youth is some special accomplishment brought about by the individual himself!

Being in nature is inspiring. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania and spent countless hours of my youth wandering the woods in awe of the beauty that exists all around us.

I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works.

Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before.

YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.

Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.

Oh, the soul keeps its youth!

No man is too good to be the athletic coach for youth.

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.

On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.

We live in a society that worships youth. On television, in magazines, in advertisements and on billboards, what sells and what is sold to us is youth.

All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.

There is something in the ardour and ingenousness of youth, which is particularly pleasing to the contemplation of an old man, if his feelings have not been entirely corroded by the world.

faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.

If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false

I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it.

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible.

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

In [my] youth I was smacked around.

We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.

Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne'er can be; Maternal thirty scarce can find The sweet sixteen long left behind.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.

My goal is more youth oriented. I'm super big on education, I was in school to be an elementary education teacher so I'm starting to build schools, getting supplies in schools in Nicaragua.

To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started.

Locally lived hip-hop culture that is giving many of America's youth the tool they need to survive and thrive in America, in the face of public policy that have written too many young people off.

Young people recognize the big challenges that are coming up.

A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.

It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.

There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!

men are attracted to beauty because it indicates health and youth—no point mating with a sickly woman who won’t be around to raise the children.

Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.

There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.

Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

Ours is a youth culture, and like a golf tournament, we honor only low scores.

For youth, sexual love is whim; for the aged, luxury.

The idea that musicians should be talking about politics is, in some ways, quite a sixties' idea. Music no longer has a vanguard role in youth culture.

How grateful we are for you, our youth.

Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I'll trade wisdom for youth any day.

The only people who really love the '80s are millennials. We had Reagan and Bush for our entire youth, the culture was terrible, the fashions were terrible, the movies were terrible.

I've never had any interest in retelling stories from my youth.

Early youth is a baffling time

I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style and a story to tell.

At 25, you've got millions of brain cells to kill.

Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.