Youth Quotes

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

The sun stands for energy and youth, which is what I thought the circus should be about.

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

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.

I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.

People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.

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.

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.

I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law.

I was doing a show at the National Youth Theatre, playing an old man. Before that I had played fat clowns and I thought, 'If I want to have the career I would like, I am going to have to lose weight.' I was just starting drama school, and found I was moving around a lot. I also started to eat sensibly. The weight just dropped off.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.

I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!

Yes, the experience of all stages of life are valuable, not just of youth.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.