Quotes About Youth

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!

That tree is very old, but I never saw prettier blossoms on it than it now bears. That tree grows new wood each year. Like that apple tree, I try to grow a new little wood each year.

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree.

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.

Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest." And the boy did. And the tree was happy.

Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

I was afraid of small spaces and I was afraid of the tree outside my window, and I had all these phobias. I think many kids have those phobias, but I probably had more than most.

I grew up on a Christmas tree farm with all this space to run around, and the [freedom] to be a crazy kid with tangled hair.

Don't trust anyone over thirty

I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad.

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the good from the bad– including your own bad.

Jealousy is beautiful only on a young and ardent face. After the first wrinkles, trust must return.

It is funny, I don't feel old enough to give advice... But with the advisers you trust, you better listen to them. It may be bad news but that's the only way you're going to improve.

My parents put everything in a trust fund for me. I won't get it until I'm 18, so I'll use it for college.

I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.

I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like.

All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.

I have learned that trust comes and goes and love comes before hate. Elise age 10.

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment.

Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.

I was thrilled to support the Teenage Cancer Trust while celebrating the music of The Who - a band that changed my life.