Quotes About Youth

Fairy tales were important to me. Aren't they for any kid? My sister says I spent a good five years of my youth convinced I would grow up to be a princess.

I think you are taken more seriously as a young adult when you are on a film set and you are doing a job and people expect something from you. Is that losing my youth? Not at all. I had a fantastic childhood.

In capital we trust. Capital is our savior, our holy grail, our fountain of youth, or at least health, for banks.

Ripen your mind to the glorious history of the ages and revel in your mastery as today's youth shall look upon you as a sage.

Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.

The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.

We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.

I remember playing on pretty much an all-minority youth team and going to some of the tournaments north of Cincinnati and not being able to stay with host families where all the other teams were staying with host families.

I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

I was very fortunate that a teacher saw that I read a lot and got bored very easily and had a lot of energy, so she said, 'You've got to go to this youth theater.' I joined Manchester Youth Theatre when I was really young, and I just loved putting on and being involved in plays and telling stories.

I used to play a lot of foreign women in my youth because I was prettier then. I would go for interviews, and directors would look at these sultry, exotic looks, hear this clipped accent and think the two don't go together. So they would give me a foreign accent.

Somewhere in my callow, misspent youth, I was smart enough to marry my best friend.

I was a Catholic youth minister for eight years... I'm not Catholic anymore. The church is too misogynistic.

I spent my entire Irish Catholic youth in a constant state of guilt over imaginary sins. I learned that nothing is a sin as long as you don't take pleasure from it.

I'm always made a little uncomfortable by studies that assert that Millennials are the most narcissistic generation in history. To me, being young has always meant being self-absorbed; in many ways, that's what youth is for.

When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.

For me, Gothic is something from my youth, when I had a heavy metal phase.

I'm certainly not surprised by the passion of the youth for our myths. Mythology is almost a part of an Indian's DNA.

At Walmart, we recognize the need to support the development of our nation's youth.

Like John Kennedy in 1960, Obama combines youth, vigor, and good looks with the promise of political change. Like Kennedy, he grew up in unusual circumstances that distance him from ordinary American life.

I did a show called 'Freaks and Geeks' when I was very young. And I had the naivete and arrogance of youth. You know, I really assumed that when the show got cancelled, like, oh, it doesn't matter, you just keep rolling, you know. I'm about to be the biggest star of the world. And then I was met with five years of unemployment.

We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.

There stand out in my life many incidents in my youth, of wonderful inspiration and power through men preaching the gospel in the spirit of testimony and prayer.

When my body and face were perfect as far as youth, I wasn't happy.