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Quotes About Youth

Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.
~ Nelson Rodrigues
Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.
~ Patrick Ness
Softball is what old men play to try to feel young again.
~ Patrick Wallace
I'm not saying that I've cheated, being in an intense love with somebody while also feeling the pulls of being a young man, especially being an object of attention.
~ Penn Dayton Badgley
Don't throw me teddy-bears, I'm 23! I'm a man! Throw me condoms or money! Paper, not coins.
~ Robbie Williams
A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.
~ Henry Adams
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
~ Herman Melville
Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.
~ James Stephens
Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons.
~ Jennifer Fallon
It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .
~ Joanna Baillie
Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.
~ John Donne
There's a young man in a T-shirt listening to a rock and roll station. He's got greasy hair, greasy smile, he says, Lord this must be my destination.
~ John Mellencamp
As a young man, you get to a point in your life where you feel like you have grown up and have to make decisions and not having that father figure in your life to guide you to making those decisions.
~ John Starks
Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.
~ Jonathan Swift
I prefer younger men. In some ways, they are much more open to a woman being stronger and independent then some of the men my age.
~ Kim Cattrall
Men don't fall in love with me - only young ones.
~ Kristin Scott Thomas
There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.
~ Larry McMurtry
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
~ Seneca the Younger
Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.
~ Thomas Hughes
Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.
~ Victor Hugo
Old men make war, young men fight and die
~ Winston Churchill
The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
~ Chinua Achebe
You young men of the priesthood, resolve to live the way you should. Don't be caught up in some of the silly things that are going on in the world, but bear in mind what has been given to you.
~ David B. Haight