Youth Quotes

My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.

Fashion embraces the weirdos. They're into that. There are always young people that people in fashion are interested in. You know, youth and vitality and energy - it brings something different.

I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.

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

I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

We don't have a major problem right now in our country, and life is normal. Things like unemployment, which the youth are suffering from, and the rate of inflation - these are chronic conditions and we have to solve them.

The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'.

What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.

My life has ever been devoted to her service from my youth up, though never before in a cause like this - a cause for which I would most cheerfully risk and lay down my life.

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front.