Quotes About Youth

We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301).

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

We'll never be as young as we are tonight.

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

I beg young people to travel.

When I'm all grown up, come what may, I'll build a boat to carry me away

I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries like I do.

I don't think a man who is fifteen years younger than me should tell me he is proud of me unless he is my sober coach or my time-travel dad.

But wanderlust is like a pretty girl - you wake up one morning, find she's grown old and decide that either you're going to commit your life or you're going to walk away.

Hi, ' Jake said. 'I met you earlier today, but you were a lot younger then.' 'I was a lot younger ten minutes ago.

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 movable feast.

Ah, youth!It was a beautiful night...The moon was out of orbit.The stars were awry.But everything else was exactlyas it should have been.

And what I learned is this: there are places in the world war one feels new, young, and alive again.

I have no respect for gangs today. None. They just drive by and shoot people. At least in the old days like in West Side Story the gangs used to dance with each other.

When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.

If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.

A youth, like a tree, needs pruning.

I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting the ground.

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped down and turned into notebook paper.

A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.