Quotes About Youth

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

And what was the song which she sang? Ah, my little man, I am too old to sing that song, and you too young to understand it.

his little whirl-about of a head was so full of the notion of going out to see the world, that it forgot her in five minutes: however, though his head forgot her, I am glad to say his heart did not.

Medicine--and particularly hospital medicine, which lives in a sea of human suffering--has a way of beating callowness out of even the most self-possessed youth.

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.

I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy.

I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.

I have had playmates, I have had companions,In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days—All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

Lawers, I suppose, were children once.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

I have indeed lived nominally fifty years, but deduct out of them the hours which I have lived to other people, and not to myself, and you will find me still a young fellow. For that is the only true Time, which a man can properly call his own-- that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's Time, not his.

Beauty tips. How to look younger: Don't be born so soon.

The crabby little girls of today are the crabby old women of tomorrow!

Bob Dylan will be thirty years old this month..." "That's the most depressing thing I've ever heard.

Little brothers are the buck privates of life!

These children that come at you with knives--they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.

As early as 3000 BC, the Chinese had named the heart the Emperor of Organs. Since then, people have spent their whole lives looking for the Holy Grail, the fountain of youth, or the center of the universe. Why look so far away when it's right there in the middle of every human on the planet? The more I understood this, the closer I thought I was getting

Life at seventeen seemed so clear.

There's something special about a kid's smile. I see in their faces what we all used to be before the world got hold of us.

Out of the mouth of babes you have perfected praise so that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

There's something special about a kid's smile. I see in their faces what we all used to be before the world got hold of us.

the kid was leaning against the window.

Globally, traffic injuries are the greatest killer of ten- to twenty-four-year-olds.* A rational actor would be terrified of suburban roads. A rational policy maker would wage war, not on other nations, but on traffic deaths.