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Quotes About Youth

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.
~ Janis Ian
I'd worked so hard that by the time I was 20, I wanted to play hard. And I did that really well.
~ Jason Bateman
A lot of the girls I grew up with were pregnant by the time they were 16. I just was lucky.
~ Jill Scott
When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didnt have time.
~ Joan Armatrading
I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.
~ Jodie Foster
By the time I was a teenager, there wasn't a show I hadn't inhaled or a character I hadn't met.
~ Joe Zee
I knew from the time I could walk that I wanted to be an actor.
~ Joely Fisher
To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Are you OLD?" "No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time.
~ John Ajvide Lindqvist
There was a time where I was the youngest one in any group, and now when I turn around sometimes, I'm the oldest one in every group. It just seemed to flip-flop one day - it wasn't a gradual thing.
~ John Cale
I'd never even seen a play by the time I was 24 years old.
~ John Corbett
I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me.
~ John Hughes
I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.
~ John Lithgow
As part of my misspent youth, I spent too much time in the sun, and every few months, I have to go and have some basal cell removed from my old craggy features.
~ John McCain
I find science really sexy and, at the time that I was a school kid, it certainly wasn't.
~ John Noble
My goodness, you're 60 already, already Time is a thief But still, you're only as old as your tongue And a little bit older than your teeth Have a wonderful birthday
~ John Walter Bratton
I got to talk to Mel Lewis a lot as a teenager. I think that's what really impacted me the most around that time.
~ Jon Gordon
I hid the homework, stayed in the bathroom for the longest time trying to cut class - I was a wreck as a kid.
~ Jordan Francis
Running around when I was a kid was a really happy time; a time when getting home for dinner or for sleep were my only responsibilities.
~ Josh Hartnett
My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.
~ Joshua Mohr
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
~ Margaret Mead
We lied to ourselves thinking in our minds we knew everything. We were deceived in believing that youthful enthusiasm could replace wizened maturity.
~ Anna M. Aquino
Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with expiration dates couldn't be held, only borrowed for a time.
~ Martina Boone