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Quotes About Youth

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung
~ Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth
How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death.
~ Dean Koontz, False Memory
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
~ John Milton
There was a beautiful time...
~ Sylvia Plath
The youth of today will never have the determination and the understanding of yesteryear's youth.
~ Javier Enríquez Serralde
We often don't realize the passing of years until we see them in a child.
~ Chris Burkmenn
And age was just a trait, like the color of your hair, or the amount of freckles on your skin.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily
Save your golden days as time goes byBefore golden years expire
~ Richard L. Ratliff
Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I've no regrets.
~ Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy
The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Kids don't have much accumulated and deep memories and that's why they happily live in the present time!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I love the optimism on the shores of youth, where time hasn't yet eroded faith.
~ Amy Neftzger, The War of Words
If life and youth were not immune to the corrosive effects of time, why should love be any different?
~ Jill Archer, Dark Light of Day
She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her life trying to stay that age.
~ C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle
Backward turn backward O Time in your flight Make me a child again just for tonight.
~ ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN
See Time has touched me gently in his race And left no odious furrows in my face.
~ George Grabbe
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may Old Time is still aflying And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.
~ Robert Herrick
It's cool cause my sister is older than me and we went to the same high school, so by the time I got to high school, I got the lowdown on all the teachers and everything.
~ Zooey Deschanel
I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.
~ Mads Mikkelsen
I cherished my time playing high school sports.
~ Peyton Manning
Only one in five children in the U.S. lives within walking distance of a park. Many more lack access to a quality early childhood education that provides ample time and space to play.
~ Darell Hammond
Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time and so forth.
~ May-Britt Moser
I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and I couldn't read the industry very well.
~ Uday Kiran
When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time.
~ Jane Birkin