Youth Quotes

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.

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.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

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

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

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.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

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.