Youth Quotes

Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.

Notwithstanding all the wrongs that slavery heaped upon me, I can bless it for one thing-youth's important lesson of self-reliance.

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

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle.

I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look".

The education of youth, an employment of more consequence than making laws and preaching the gospel, because it lays the foundation on which both law and gospel rest for success.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

Youth is stranger than fiction.

The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids.

I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.

It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

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

Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.

The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

What I know about street outreach is that it is essential to dealing with the issue of youth homelessness.

Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.

Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

It's my job to spread deviance to the American youth.

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.

I give thanks for ever increasing health, youth and beauty.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

That's what music should be like all the time. No stress, moving things forward, inspiring the youth, and doing it with style and vigor.

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

The real feeling of youth comes when we actually think in the consciousness of youth and give the realization of the now to every thought.

No matter what you have gone through in your youth, it is about who you choose to be in life. You can define your own destiny. You can be stronger than a very difficult past and overcome it.

Youth doesn't need friends -- it only needs crowds.

When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.

I recommend that everyone in their youth be as out of shape as possible so that when you turn 40, people can go, "Wow, you look much better now."

The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

We spend all our youth chasing money, and when we attain it, we spend all our money chasing youth.

Youth and nepotism, the twin horsemen of Hollywood!

With satanic joy in his face, the black-haired Jewish youth lurks in wait for the unsuspecting girl whom he defiles with his blood, thus stealing her from her people.

A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

The young are always in extremes.

From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.