Quotes About Youth

Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.

There is a fountain of youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring in your life and the lives of people you love

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Simon would disapprove, in the way that people who lacked life experience always disapproved of others having adventures they had so far missed out on.

When you're young, you don't seriously wonder whether your friends might be terrible people. You're naive and optimistic; you assume anyone occupying the structural position of best friend must be a good person deep down.

From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

J'avais treize ans. Je venais de faire peur à un adulte pour la première fois.

I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.

Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.

Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler.

truly understand what's going on with the youth of America, you need to realize we are the first generation that has spent our entire lives in the hyper-connected world. The Internet, social media, mobile devices—previous generations didn't deal with the ubiquity of this shit and have no clue how dangerous and exhausting it is to go through the trials of adolescence and young adulthood in a world that is always on. There is no privacy.

The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.

Carpentry is a young person's sport. It builds you up physically for the first few years, then starts tearing you down.

We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts.

I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.

I have a body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.

The youngest member of this ageing community was ex-variety artiste, Patrick L. Balls. Fifty-nine now, he spent out his remaining years pulling a rope lift and bottling fruit. He had once whistled Ave Maria for Queen Victoria. She wasn't present at the time, but nevertheless that's who he was whistling it for.

The die was cast. It was a proud day for the Milligan family as I was taken from the house. "I'm too young to go," I screamed as Military Policemen dragged me from my pram, clutching a dummy. At Victoria Station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked "This is your enemy." I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train.

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

Is that too innocence, when the fountain of milk is flowing in rich abundance, not to endure one to share it, though in extremest need, and whose very life as yet depends thereon? We bear gently with all this, not as being no or slight evils, but because they will disappear as years increase; for, though tolerated now, the very same tempers are utterly intolerable when found in riper years.

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.