Quotes About Youth

"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?

I hope everybody's had fun, because I've enjoyed my ride. I can tell you that. Now it's time to step aside and let some other young kid come in and win. Hopefully, they will, too.

I found my father's Super8mm film camera when I was around eight years old and started shooting with it. I had no idea what I was doing at the time, but that's really where my filmmaking began.

The guys I tended to date, you know, didn't necessarily have it altogether but I had a great time.

Perhaps we can come here together someday. By the way, you're a month older than the last time I saw you. Are you still too young to marry.

I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.

I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.

It's this thing that's going on all the time - aging. Paul Auster quotes the poet George Opren on growing old: "What a strange thing to happen to a little boy." Which I think is so profound.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

I cannot remember a time when I was not getting into fights.

Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had.

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

Quit while there is still time - at about 12 or 13 years of age!

By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.

I'm just really happy to be happy for the first time since I was about 20.

I was pretty young when I saw the original Planet of the Apes, and for a time in the seventies, I was pretty obsessed with it.

I was very much a tomboy for a long time, but as I start to get older, I realize I better actually try to preserve what I have and I better be a little conscientious about my regime.

I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter.

When you're young, you think you can handle anything. By the time you find out otherwise, it's already too late. You got a stocking wrapped around your neck.

I was 12 when I got a small part in a movie in Texas. And in my spare time, I play with my dogs and write music and go out with my friends.

Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.

At the same time, you see in those studies, you see the emergence of various movements among black youth that are really challenging the ideology of neoliberalism since the 1980s.

In some cities such as Washington, DC, that 75 percent of young black men can expect to serve time in prison.

The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.