Quotes About Youth

There is something in the ardour and ingenousness of youth, which is particularly pleasing to the contemplation of an old man, if his feelings have not been entirely corroded by the world.

When the old men fight, the young people die.

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

I was 28 when I played the role of a 65 year old man in my first film.

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.

Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne'er can be; Maternal thirty scarce can find The sweet sixteen long left behind.

It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.

Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it.

I always tell young people in particular: Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America, unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s or '60s or '70s.

men are attracted to beauty because it indicates health and youth—no point mating with a sickly woman who won't be around to raise the children.

Nationality was - and is - far less a divide than age... because "everything is global, man!"

When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid.

I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man's Trojans.

Give a moment or two to the angry young man with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand.

And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.

I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.

I've been out with men who have literally had an argument with the mirror because they couldn't get their hair right. When I was younger, I might have reassured him, but I can't do that anymore.

It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.

As a younger person I think I thought of myself as a Tony [from The Best Man], struggling with the legacy of my famous parents.

I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.

I always tell people that I was fortunate I was able to come in with a group of men. We didn't come into the game with a group of boys. We were young then. So your cats keep you in check.

I'm fascinated by the whole issue of arousal addiction, which seems to be mostly a problem for young men.

A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.

I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or young men, you must absolutely have young people to fill them - that is generally acknowledged now.