Quotes About Youth

Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening as if smacked and smacked again.

The boys crept to her side at early dark to sit around her, mournful, with their heads bowed down like they wished they knew how to pray the oldest prayers and pray her well. Harold held a cool cloth to her swollen eye. Sonny made fists and said, 'What was the fight about?' 'Me bein' me I guess.' 'How many was it?' 'A few.' 'Tell us the names. For when we grow up.

When I was younger, I really struggled with confidence.

From dancing in the rain to crying silently in the rain we all grew up…

I see the difficulty of kids in going to university, the difficulty of kids in schools getting arts education, so that the arts and drama and the creative arts are extracurricular. They aren't: they are at the centre, and they are the equipment we so desperately need in the world.

Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.

In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education… it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.

Schools are prisons for the lucky kids and prisons are schools for the unlucky kids.

Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime.

I partly know why I have not led a perfect life like other believers. But I avow to my Lord, and I do not lie, that from the time when I first knew him, the love of God and the fear of him has grown in me from my youth so that I have, by the power of God, always till now kept the faith.

You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like – you feel like it's Friday, and you're 17 years old.

A lot of my friends, when I was 14 or 15, they were all up and down, wanting to go out on a Friday night, and my dad had me working really late on Fridays and Saturday mornings and even on Sunday mornings. And when I'd finished all that, we used to spend the rest of the time talking about boxing.

"Oh, and this one time, at band camp, I stuck a flute in my pussy…"

I better go to bed now. I have a dream locked up in my heart that I need to let out.

When I say I miss school, I mean my friends and the fun. Not the school.

Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.

"Then his flesh is renewed like a child's; it is restored as in the days of his youth."

"For you have been my hope, O Sovereign Lord, my confidence since my youth. From my birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother's womb. I will ever praise you."

I've been in different countries, and a girl will come up and say, 'I love you. We are going to get married someday!' And I'm like, 'You're 11!'

The prime of your life does not come twice.

Do you want to feel young again? Learn something new. Being a student makes your mind fresh and curious like a little kid again.

1. I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth.

I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth.

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.