Quotes About Youth

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

As I look back and connect the dots, all I want to do is go back and hug my scared young self, who took a lot of steps out of impulse not knowing what will happen. So many nights of disappointment, so many others of being disillusioned where I would have just gone ahead and quit it all - I still do not know what kept me hanging in there.

When you are young, you are fervent about the things you believe in.

I was a young soldier when war broke out between Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places.

When you're young, you think that clothes are almost magical, and that if you wear the right thing - to school, to the prom, on the date, etc. - something's going to happen. Black, it's the anti-magical thing. It comes from the recognition that it is not going to be 'the' dress.

We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.

We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

When I was very young, I had to start to working to help my family, while my friends were studying. Since then, I have felt the urgency to escape from every dependency situation.

In order for critical pedagogy, dialogue, and thought to have real effects, they must advocate the message that all citizens, old and young, are equally entitled, if not equally empowered, to shape the society in which they live.

I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.

Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.

When you are young, you do a lot of stupid things.

I don't like this young crudeness now which is supposed to be comedy on Friday nights.

August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery.

Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.

I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

As a young boy, I was obsessed with endangered species and the extinct species that men killed off. Biology was the subject in school that I was incredibly passionate about.