Quotes About Youth

We become decrepit with age, but not so Desire. Infirmity assails us, the skin wrinkles, The hair whitens, the body becomes crooked, Old age comes on. Desire alone grows younger every day.

Hark! here the sound of lute so sweet, And there the voice of wailing loud; Here scholars grave in conclave meet, There howls the brawling drunken crowd; Here, charming maidens full of glee, There, tottering, withered dames we see. Such light! Such shade! I cannot tell, If here we live in heaven or hell.

Lower the Voting Age to Five. See youth apathy magically turn around when they know they have a real stake in their future; and get to vote for their school boards, and why not their teachers?

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth

Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.

Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before.

Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.

Önce yatanlar?n aras?nda dola?t?, sonra d?? avluya ç?k?p nöbet tutanlara bakt? bu adam. Genç say?l?r daha; saç? sakal? a?armam??, omuzlar? çökmemi?, belini dik tutuyor. Ama uyuyamad???na da bak?l?rsa, gençlikten epey uzakla?m?? olmal?.

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.

Opium? No! Cocaine? No! The Great American Brain Killer Is Dance Music!' – Portland Oregonian, 1932 T

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted — stay up all night or eat ice cream straight out of the container.

Our 'Hooligans' go from bad to worse. They are an ugly growth on the body politic, and the worse circumstance is that they multiply, and that School Boards and prisons, police magistrates and philanthropists, do not seem to ameliorate them. Other great cities may throw off elements more perilous to the State. Nevertheless the 'Hooligan' is a hideous excrescence on our civilization. The Times [London], October 30, 1890

I experimented with marijuana a time or two. And I didn't like it, and didn't inhale, and never tried it again.

When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.

When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old.

I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter miler, whose son now says, "Dad, I just can't run the quarter with you anymore unless I bring something to read."

It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size Jockey shorts for his entire life. And so you have a man with a brand-new 40-inch waist who is trying to get into size 36 Jockey shorts, a man who is now wearing a combination of supporter and tourniquet. Proud men have gone to the brink of gangrene to maintain the interior fashion of their youth.

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child.

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children--unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek.

It is a well known fact that most artists produce their best work early in their career. They may refine what they do but you usually get the measure of what they are about on their first outing.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.