Quotes About Youth

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

I speak for a lot of church groups, youth groups, schools, colleges and do personal appearances. I've done conventions and trade shows. A lot of different little hats.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.

Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Unless we rise to the challenge, instead of American youth being able to live the American dream, the Chinese will fulfill their dream of overtaking America.

He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the 'guru' - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.

There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.

The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.

I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar.

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.

Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?

I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert.

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!

It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did youth theatre together when we were 16 and always had a dream of making a film together. And ten years later, we've done it. So it's great.

So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody.