Quotes About Youth

The young have to kill the old. The young, if they want to achieve their own platform, have to diminish the reputations of the ones that have gone before. That's how life works.

I'm 27. I feel like I get it. I'm OK with being sexy if I feel like it. Some days I'm brainy, some days I'm funny, some days I'm sexy, and sometimes, I just want to dance.

Children are so egocentric - they want to watch their lives, and not yours.

I know I'm too thin right now, so I wouldn't want any young girl looking at me and saying, 'That's what I want to look like.'

It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.

I still feel young as far as motivation is concerned, and also the challenges that I have for the future and what I want to achieve. So I just hope this successful streak is extended to the fullest.

Children want one thing at a time, and want that one thing passionately.

I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she bought it for me, and a lot of it was over my head, but I had it.

The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When I put it down, I thought, if this is what novels are then I want to be a novelist.

Given all the facts that I'm young and I'm in good health and I'm famous - that I have talent, I have money - given all these facts, I want to know why I'm so unhappy.

Young people don't want to sit at home and watch television; they'd sooner be out doing their own thing.

You're so young... Are you sure that's what you want your life to be, forever and ever? That job? That career? That girlfriend?

When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors and that movie was my inspiration to want to be an actor.

I joined Genesis when I was 19. I've earned the right to actually do nothing. I don't want to be a shadow of what I was, so I've kind of just quite willingly stood back.

When you get older and you start dating, I want you to be able to say one thing, 'I made a hook.'

We're extremely young and have the potential to be anything that we want to be.

The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie!

there is no fun than helping to make someone's dreams come true Especially when that person is ayoung person and who really want it and really dserve it

You [Jill Stein] want to do something about student debt. And that affects conservative and liberal students. That's going to be a majoritarian position.

When I was young what made me really want to be a rapper was when I saw MC Lyte.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.

Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults

That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.