Youth Quotes

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

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.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.

Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

In recent years, the choice of drugs on these reservations and throughout my district has been methamphetamines. It has destroyed the rule of law among the reservation people. It is killing our tribal youth in this country.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects.

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.

Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.

Diamonds are forever, my youth is not.