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Quotes About Youth

He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.
~ Dennis Price
This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll.
~ Eddie Vedder
A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.
~ Elizabeth Missing Sewell
Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill.
~ Garrison Keillor
Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Cooking today is a young man's game, I don't give a bollocks what anyone says.
~ Gordon Ramsay
In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.
~ Tana French, Faithful Place
I don't mind dating younger men now.
~ Jackee Harry
Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.
~ Robert Benchley
Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.
~ Aeschylus
I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.
~ Al Goldstein
I was too young to live on campus. I just went back and forth on the bus. Eventually I got my own car and thought I was Mr. Man, so I started hot wheelin' it.
~ Aldis Hodge
Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.
~ Alice Hoffman
It is quite proper to meet a young man at a cocktail party and go on to dinner with him. If he is attractive, you can consider yourself not only correct, but lucky.
~ Alice-Leone Moats
A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.
~ Amelia Barr
No man is too good to be the athletic coach for youth.
~ Amos Alonzo Stagg
On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.
~ Amy Lowell
The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
~ Anatole France
Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.
~ Andre Malraux
I've been getting chatted up by men ever since I was 14.
~ Andrej Pejic
I'm not the savior of men's tennis in America. I'm just a kid trying to win a few matches.
~ Andy Roddick