Quotes About Youth

I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.

Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.

Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.

The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!

I think that they haven't been able to perfect a good facelift for a man.

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.

I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book.

If boys don't learn, men won't know.

I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.

I think it's probably a bad idea for young boys to see how they're being depicted in men's fantasies. It could get very dark. You could learn how to do things wrong.

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster.

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.

Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.

The epidemic is truly black-on-black crime. The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are young black men.