Quotes About Youth

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

I definitely don't consider myself a kid anymore. I feel like an old man, an old 28-year-old.

Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.

Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.

The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.

Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.

Mornings are mysteries; the first world's youth, Man's resurrection, and the future's bud Shroud in their births.

Man and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember.

Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.

I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.

My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money.

The only way I can get a man to touch me at this age is plastic surgery.

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.

You are old Father William,' the young man said, 'and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head-do you think, at your age, it is right?

Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.

I grew up always hanging out with boys, and I always wanted to play rock 'n' roll with boys, and so I've always acted kind of like a man.

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn't do anything but just jiggle.

Derek Taylor was where all the razz-ma-tazz and class sprang from; the Beatles were just charming, rich young men.