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Quotes About Youth

I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.
~ Jeff Bridges
...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.
~ Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.
~ Natalie Dormer
Then there will come a time where, very quickly, a woman will lose what some call her beauty.
~ Frederick Lenz
Why can men be boys all of their lives, but we women must grow old while we are yet young?
~ Sylvia Day
Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves.
~ Gloria Steinem
Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again with that conversation, and renew their own early times.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Even just pestering people with questions, and being nosey and pushy and getting her way, are things I think many young women grow up struggling with, to assert themselves.
~ Deborah Ann Woll
People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.
~ Debra Winger
My first debate in high school--"Resolved: Girls are no good"--and I won!
~ Donald Freed
I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet.
~ Edward Abbey
I see a lot of women who can't travel when they're young, and then their kids grow up and they become amazing adventurers. Travel is not only for the young. Sometimes it's wasted on the young.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.
~ Ellen Glasgow
I'm actually just playing honest, whole young women.
~ Ellen Page
I believe every young women needs to know that though you may have to struggle and strive to achieve your dreams, you can have oodles of fun along the way.
~ Eric Jacobson
I don't have anger towards women. It's the first script I wrote, I was really young. I got older. It's told from an angry point-of-view. Young men are crazy strange emotional beings.
~ Evan Glodell
It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.
~ Frank Crowninshield
I'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four.
~ Fred Allen
I was 16 or something. [My aunt] broadened my understanding of what women could be like and do and that there's a big world out there. So she had a huge impact on me.
~ Geena Davis
It's important for young men and women who look at the Nebraska champs to understand that quality of life is more than just blocking shots.
~ George W. Bush
Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become.
~ Hannah Nordhaus
The cuter girls kinda went off from the older women because we're younger, and we're cuter, we've got better bodies, and for some reason that's like a huge issue with older people.
~ Heidi