Quotes About Youth

Just about a month from today I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

A surgeon should be young, a physician old.

I feel like I'm 16 again — gas is cheap and I'm grounded.

Remember back when we used to eat cake after someone blew all over it? Man, were we wild!

No man stands so straight as one who stoops to help a child.

I believe the two greatest words in the English language are "Play ball!"

College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of twelve and seventeen, for example, a parent ages as much as twenty years.

Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.

A truly special teacher is very wise, and sees tomorrow in every child's eyes.

...teachers touch the future...

Beauty exists at every age. It's not about youth and perfection.

When I was younger, I was trying to create from attitude more than anything else.

I had an attitude problem when I was a kid. I'm not gonna lie.

Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

Ben Franklin advises his grandson not to let even the American Revolution interrupt his studies, urging of young adulthood, "This is the time of life in which you are to lay the foundations of your future improvement and of your importance among men. If this season is neglected, it will be like cutting off the spring from the year.

Looking back on his adolescence from the vantage point of his mid-eighties, George H.W. Bush candidly admitted, "I might have been obsessed with bodies – boobs they are now called. But what seventeen-year-old kid was not? Guilty am I.

Our health is more about our actions than our age

Words and form! We have a totally clear view of the world when we're fourteen years old, maybe sooner. But then we need another fifty years in order to create a language that can express those impressions. And in the mean time, of course, they've faded away.

The U.S. imperialists supply armaments to their henchmen to massacre the Indochinese peoples. They dump their goods in Indochina to prevent the development of local handicrafts. Their pornographic culture depraves the youth in areas placed under their control. They follow the policy of buying up, deluding and dividing our people. They strive to turn some bad elements into U.S. agents that they use for the conquest of our country.

Die Revolution wirkte auf mich und meine Altersgenossen gerade umgekehrt wie der Krieg: der Krieg hatte unser wirkliches Leben bis zur Langweiligkeit unverändert gelassen, dafür aber unsere Phantasie reichen und unerschöpflichen Stoff gegeben. Die Revolution brachte viel Neues in die tägliche Wirklichkeit, und das Neue war bunt und aufregend genug, aber sie ließ die Phantasie unbeschädigt.

Age for me is just a number.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.