Top 100 Quotes About Youth
#1. Few things in life hurt as much as the awareness that one has betrayed the ideas of one's youth.
Jose Saramago
#2. I had the girlish, round face that would have passed for a German World War II poster of an Aryan Hitler youth had I worn braided pigtails.
Maggie Young
#4. I tried self-sacrifice a couple of times in my youth.
Mason Cooley
#5. One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.
John Burroughs
#6. We have thought that because children are young they are silly. We have forgotten the blind stirrings, the reaching outward of our own youth.
Mabel Robinson
#7. All the money that's donated to the Trevor Project provides resources that directly affect the youth that actually watch my videos. It's a cool thing to see them basically provide resources for each other.
Tyler Oakley
#8. Show me the heroes that the youth of your country look up to, and I will tell you the future of your country.
Idowu Koyenikan
#10. Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.
William Feather
#11. But thy strong Hours indignant work'd their wills, And beat me down and marr'd and wasted me, And tho' they could not end me, left me maim'd To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#12. You've got to have a young element in a show. Any project needs youth and dynamism as well old codgerdom and experience.
Tim Rice
#13. Youth ministry is not about getting things accomplished - only the act of God can bring about the transformation we seek. Youth ministry is about participating deeply in young people's lives as we await, together in suffering & joy, the coming of God.
Andrew Root
#14. The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.
Charles Hamilton Houston
#16. The devotion that young Chinese feel to the Internet is driven by deep factors ranging from youth unemployment and income inequality to political repression and the demographic imbalance between men and women.
Evan Osnos
#17. Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.
Abu Bakr
#18. One of the roles of man is to shut his eyes and keep them shut to see if he can continue into the night of his old age the dream curtailed in the night of his youth.
Machado De Assis
#19. Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.
Wallace Stegner
#21. Though youth be past, and beauty fled,
The constant heart its pledge redeems,
Like box, that guards the flowerless bed
And brighter from the contrast seems.
Sarah Josepha Hale
#22. As Samuel Spaulding, Esquire, once said, 'Dig in the earth, delve in the soul.' Spin those mower blades, Bill, and walk in the spray of the Fountain of Youth. End of lecture. Besides, a mess of dandelion greens is good eating once in a while.
Ray Bradbury
#23. The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
Samuel Butler
#25. Youth hates age, age loves youth. This means we are born for unhappiness. This means we will keep buying outfits.
Kate Tempest
#26. The soul of her youth clamored for its rights; for a share in the world's glory and exultation.
Kate Chopin
#27. Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
Felix Bloch
#28. They got drunk and high on a regular basis, but this is a vestige of youth that you either quit while you're young or you become an addict if you don't die.
If you are the Old Guy In The Punk House, move out. You have a substance abuse problem.
Bucky Sinister
#30. THAT'S YOUTH for you; it sets its own limits without even asking if the body can take it. Yet the body always does.
Paulo Coelho
#31. To summarize: Three steps must be taken to smash the war racket. 1. We must take the profit out of war. 2. We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war. 3. We must limit our military forces to home defense purposes.
Smedley D. Butler
#32. He thought of his wife, of his son, of his youth. He thought of life. He thought of death and then he thought of life again.
Teodor Flonta
#33. Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality; and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free.
Thomas Carlyle
#34. I am beginning to understand the true difference between youth and age. Young people have time to make plans and think of new ideas. Older people need their whole energy to keep up with what's already been set in motion.
Michael Cunningham
#36. I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.
John Cheever
#38. The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.
Aristotle.
#39. In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow
William Shakespeare
#40. There's no denying his resemblance to the Rodin bronze - the slender, effortless muscularity of youth, the extravagant nonchalance of it; that sense that beauty is in fact the natural human condition and not the rarest of mutations.
Michael Cunningham
#41. Even innocence itself has many a wile,
And will not dare to trust itself with truth,
And love is taught hypocrisy from youth.
George Gordon Byron
#42. One has to choose thrill of learning over earning. knowledge before power, curious experience than money and safe family life. That's spirit of my favorite youth.
Jay Vasavada
#43. It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'
Olivia Wilde
#44. Youth has triumphed (upon defeating 86-year-old Dirk van Foreest).
Jacques Mieses
#45. There is no easy fix or youth unemployment. Partnership between the public and private sectors can make a big difference.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
#46. I would be lying if I said I didn't get a kick out of the assignment. Here I am, a "troubled youth," and my self-chosen treatment is to become a stalker. Okay, not stalker. Research Analyst.
Lindsey Leavitt
#47. Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.
Friedrich Schiller
#48. I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
Zooey Deschanel
#49. What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
Evelyn Waugh
#50. Let's roll for justice, let's roll for truth. Let's not let our children grow up fearful in their youth.
Neil Young
#51. Youth is the age of extremes: "if the young commit a fault it is always on the side of excess and exaggeration." The great difficulty of youth (and of many of youth's elders) is to get out of one extreme without falling into its opposite.
Will Durant
#52. People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.
Charlaine Harris
#53. Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to a group of artists who represent the quintessence of American independence, fortitude, genius, and madness.
Paul Burch
#55. If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
Robert Lowell
#56. Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
Ben Jonson
#57. 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.
Sela Ward
#58. For joy alone,
Carries a fountain of youth.
Laughter's music,
Will wrinkle smooth.
- Poem Fountain of Youth
Kari L. Greenaway
#59. It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.
Miles Franklin
#60. Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#61. The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.
John F. Kennedy
#62. The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
Abigail Adams
#63. She was about forty: In her youth She had been a Beauty; But her charms had been upon that large scale which can but ill sustain the shock of years: However She still possessed some remains of them.
Matthew Gregory Lewis
#64. Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.
C.S. Lewis
#65. Most established novelists are writing books informed by experiences gained in their youth. Middle age is not the best time to be changing smartphones every six months or adopting new technology platforms - because we tend to get slower and less accommodating to change as we age.
Charles Stross
#66. I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses.
Anthony Michael Hall
#67. Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle.
#68. My emotional investment started when I read the first scene of the actual drama [45 Years]. I can't explain it, there's no logic to it, but the notion of one's youth that somehow comes back but is gone, a man of my age connecting to that timing of life.
Tom Courtenay
#70. I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it.
Anne Lamott
#71. I know the youth of India. They are not merely asking for things. The youth wants to stand of their own feet and live a life of pride and dignity.
Narendra Modi
#72. They (the youth of Australia) are out there clamouring in all forms of voice, and they are not so much hedging us older Australians aside as saying, 'For heaven's sake, listen to us and empower us to help drive this country towards a wonderful future.'
Peter Cosgrove
#73. One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
Anthony Burgess
#74. Change is seen as something evil only by those who have lost their youth or sense of humor." That was Cookie Mueller on the East Village, 1985. The
Sari Botton
#75. And tears take sunshine from thine eyes! Life is but thought: so think I will That Youth and I are house-mates still.
Adam L. Gowans
#76. I was baptized as an infant. I was confirmed as an adolescent; I was active in my church's youth group and in my university student group. I was married before the church's altar; trained at the church's seminaries, ordained deacon and priest at age 24.
John Shelby Spong
#77. The pure, the bright, the beautiful, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth; The longings after something lost, The spirit's yearning cry, The striving after better hopes ... These things can never die.
Ruskin Bond
#78. In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
Beverly Sills
#79. I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.
Nat Turner
#80. Youth is incredible because you really do feel invincible.
Paul Stanley
#81. For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.
William Shakespeare
#82. If we take our youth seriously, provide tools to strengthen their natural prowess, and empower them to make the changes they want to see in the world, then this planet and her creatures have the chance to heal and flourish.
Ian Somerhalder
#83. But now I know that youth isn't waiting for you on the other side of wisdom.
Adriana Trigiani
#84. I had youth, beauty, two advantages conferred by chance, and of which we are as proud as if they were hard-won.
Honore De Balzac
#85. Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire.
Homer
#86. It is almost impossible for children and youth to find their way through the seas of life without the guiding light of a good example.
M. Russell Ballard
#87. I tried to do that very difficult thing, imagine old people young again and invested with the graces of youth. But
Charles Dickens
#88. Tell me, how do you cope so calmly
With crazy youth's arrogant way?
Indeed, youth would be insufferable,
Had I myself not also been insufferable.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#89. In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.
Isabel Allende
#90. The Squire's life was quite as idle as his sons', but it was a fiction kept up by himself and his contemporaries in Raveloe that youth was exclusively the period of folly, and that their aged wisdom was constantly in a state of endurance mitigated by sarcasm.
George Eliot
#91. People say 'teenage girls aren't so clever. Your characters should be less articulate to reflect our youth.' People who say that aren't spending time with teenagers.
Diablo Cody
#92. In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.
Robert Southey
#93. Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.'
Gloria Steinem
#94. He hoped it would snow recklessly and bring to the island the impossible winter purity, so rare and precious, he remembered fondly from his youth.
David Guterson
#95. In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.
Marya Mannes
#97. My message for all my readers is: Don't believe in those who claim that youth is a passing disease you just have to get rid of. Don't believe, that maturity is a goal and an asset to go after. Nothing will ever be ready, that is what makes life interesting. Read!
Tuula Kallioniemi
#98. I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.
Cherie Lunghi
#99. Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
Ralph W. Sockman
#100. Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong.
Kiefer Sutherland
