Quotes About Youth

As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school.

I had a huge Lisa Frank sticker collection. I traded them.

I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work.

I want us to develop a way to where kids in high school and the trades can get an associate degree while they're in high school.

Walk across any of the trading floors - they are full of 29-year-old kids. The capital markets of America are controlled by a bunch of right-out-of-business-school young guys who haven't really seen that much.

I have this memory of being 15 years old, sitting with a friend on the steps of a little bookstore on Bloor Street in Toronto and saying, 'I'll never take money for my writing!' I had such idealism about this idea of trading your soul for money.

People need to understand, we can come together as a nation. We can create a culture of life. More and more young people today are embracing life because we know we are - we're better for it.

When I was 4 or 5 and I could put complete thoughts together and really feel them, I remember watching the Grammy's or something like that and getting real emotional because I wanted to be up there.

It was an old, old, old, old lady, And a boy who was half-past three; And the way they played together Was beautiful to see.

The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler.

Most young people today prefer just to move in together and stay together as long, but no longer, as satisfaction lasts.

I haven't really spoken to God since I was a boy and I've rediscovered god and prayer in the process and all of that has come together.

One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to dinner together as a family, we'd learn about each other. We had something people don't get today.

It broke my heart when my first band split up. I was 25 and we'd been together since we were 15. But it had to happen. There was a point when I knew I had to move on.

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

We gotta get out while we're young, 'cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.

I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.

I am happy now, to recall that I was not only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him.

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.

We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling.