Quotes About Youth

You are getting too old for this. A man is as old as he feels, woman! And how old do you feel? About ninety.

Often I think boys don't become men. Boys just get papier-mâchéd inside a man's mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is still in there.

While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.

In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so.

I look down and see little kids in the audience and I'm like, "Oh man, I hope I'm not poisoning these kids!"

How can a young man like to wear a beard?

I remember, as a young man, wanting to experience a car going at those speeds and being visually nourished by something which I loved so much. And I wanted to race fast cars and have a good time.

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

Man they treat me like a legend, am I really this cold? I'm really too young to be feeling this old.

Man does not cease to play because he grows old, he grows old because he ceases to play.

May my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if its sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are right they are not young

Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.

John Redwood is a young man but, let's face it, so was Margaret Thatcher in 1975.

Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

Boys mystified me, although I dreamed vaguely of men.

I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor's wife right now.

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

I recently rewatched Stand By Me and was like, "Wow, this is so powerful because these young men are so vulnerable and so emotional, and love each other." That's a rare quality for a film.

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now.

It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old men's voices. As a kid, I didn't like pip-squeaked singers.

I never go to a college reunion that I don't come away feeling sorry for all those paunchy, balding jocks trying to hang onto youth. I feel sorry for the men, too.

As a young man... you don't know anything about yourself. And add on to that, you're on the cover of magazines. People are interviewing you about what you think. You feel like a real phony.

The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.