Youth Quotes

In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

In a dream you are never eighty.

Custodial education does not have as its objective the education of youth but rather social control over them. It suppresses rather than stimulates their intellectual and physical energies.

The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.

In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.

I saw them kissing in the shade and knew the sum of all my lore: God gave them Youth, God gave them Love, and even God can give no more.

O youth whose hope is high, Who dost to Truth aspire, Whether thou live or die, O look not back nor tire.

Javy [Baez] grew up in Puerto Rico, played a lot of baseball as a youth, played a lot of winter ball. He's been taught properly and well.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.

To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.

Youth is life's beautiful moment.

If we truly want to end youth homelessness... then we have to invest in prevention and support communities as they work to implement these life-changing efforts.

The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.

What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.

In his youth Michael Owen was literally a greyhound.

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth

In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.

Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.

In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.

The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.

Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

Gather, gather your youth: Just like this flower, old age Your beauty will wither.

If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.

The media, of course, loves to make claims about the fountain of youth. Don't believe it. No one has it. But we're getting close.

When you get older, everybody sort of changes and moves away. I think that stands the test of time, when you have a friendship from youth that's still in your life today.

Every youth movement presents itself as a loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled.

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

Kipling, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, reveals the tin-pot evangelist with increasing clarity as youth and its ribaldries pass away and he falls back upon his fundamentals.

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

Youth is a question of energy.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.

I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth inherent in the bear or deer. After all, human beings are animals.

Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.

We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems.

The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning.

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest!

Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

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

Praise the Lord, my soul, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. The Lord works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

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.