Youth Quotes

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

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.

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.

I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar.

There is this idea that appealing to youth is the only way forward. But that is no longer the case. Youth is not everything. Now we have all the baby-boomers in their 60s, like me, who are actively engaged in life - we're not retiring, we're not just being put out to grass once we hit 60.

If life were just, we would be born old and achieve youth about the time we'd saved enough to enjoy it.

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

I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

I am just enjoying my youth but I want to settle down eventually.

Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

A lot of them want to come and play for Manchester United. They want to play because Alex has a record of giving youth a chance and we have the history and heritage of Manchester United.

I won the youth vote in Massachusetts and in California. I did very well with it in Ohio.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.

So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.

I would very much like to make Westerns. I love Westerns. I've worked on many Westerns in my youth, in Spain and here, and I love working on them.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?