Quotes About Youth

I played in JV games on Saturday mornings when my mom was the only person in the stands.

Other kids would sneak out of the house to go to parties and do untoward things. I was sneaking out to do standup downtown. It paid off.

As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle.

I don't like to see teenage men wearing very tight jeans. The sight of an erection belongs in the privacy of the bedroom, living room, or kitchen floor.

...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs.

Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.

My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.

I want every young man who sees me to know that I'm not that different from them. I wasn't born into wealth. I wasn't born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes - but I kept at it.

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

Oh, you young people act like old men. You have no fun.

As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.

I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man.

I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.

As a young man God blessed me with a special talent to throw a football.

I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.

Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.

I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.