Youth Quotes

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

Saints preserve us,' Dr. Kellen said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. 'What have we done to our youth?

Adolescence and early youth...the fires are burning fastest, right? And your energy level is highest. It demands...and rock is screaming type music.

I think I'm in a business where you have to look good, and it's totally youth-oriented.

The idea of a youth-based society that you live in for a certain time and then you no longer live anymore is an interesting idea for a movie, but you need young people that people want to go see.

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

Tell me, how do you cope so calmly With crazy youth's arrogant way? Indeed, youth would be insufferable, Had I myself not also been insufferable.

What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.

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

Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.

Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.

A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four thousand years constitutes senility or the maiden blush of youth.

One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth.

One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.

I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.

He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.

As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.

Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on the sea of death. For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but Truth.

As part of my misspent youth, I spent too much time in the sun, and every few months, I have to go and have some basal cell removed from my old craggy features.

For the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life.

Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.

In the woods is perpetual youth.

My reasoning, if one can call it that, was inflamed by the scatter shot passions of youth and a literary diet overly rich in the works of Nietzshe, Kerouac, and John Menlove Edwards.

The great romance of your youth is your best friend at that age.

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

The biggest fashion mistake people make is they try to hang on to their youth. Embrace who you are now-your body, your lifestyle, your coloring.

Youth is insolent; it is its right - its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence.

I remember my youth... the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men.

The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.

During my youth, I was fascinated by the colors of Van Goth's paintings

Patriotism is a passion which induces hot youth to rush forth to get shot and half shot, while sober, conservative age waves the flag and corrals the contracts.

I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it.

Maybe you just get so attached to the music of your youth that you think it's better than what's coming out now.

Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?

Will our Philosophy to later Life Seem but a crudeness of the planet's youth, Our Wisdom but a parasite of Truth?

I think there has always been an obsession with youth and beauty. What's missing is the equal obsession with respect for…older people…and their wisdom and knowledge and courage.

I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.

Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company and later my degree course all helped form my love of telling stories and directing.

Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.

Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.

Passion for God is not youth thing. It is a hunger thing.

I think as a mature artist, you're probably always trying to undo the compromises of one's self [in general]. It's not necessarily to do with youth.

Being young is not having any money; being young is not minding not having any money.