Quotes About Youth

Here's looking at you kid.

You're the first boy I ever kissed, Jake, and I want you to be the last.

I cannot eat, I cannot drink; the pleasures of youth and love are fled away: there was a good time once, but now that is gone, and life is no longer life.

"Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems."

Aaah, summer – that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It's a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends.

Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.

When most kids were doing summer camp, I was doing the Arkansas festival circuit, passing out push cards, and shaking hands and tagging along with my dad to every nook and cranny in the state of Arkansas.

And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.

Thank God I have parents who'd support the crazy things I did. If my dad found a snake, I'd take it to the woods. I was always taking these homeless birds and homeless cats home.

I have very intense feelings of joy or sadness. I used to not like that so much because I was worried it was girly, and I wanted to be more stoic. I think this happens a lot. When you're 16, there are qualities you wish you didn't have, and then when you're 30, you're like, 'Thank God I have that; otherwise, I'd be living less vividly.'

I see teenagers or people who are 21 and think, 'I was an idiot at that age.' I was running around New York like a crazy woman. Thank God I only had three and a half cents to my name. I was too immature to handle success then.

When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.

A pinwheel also needs wind. And with our actions, and our intentions, we can be that wind. We have to be those agents of change for the young people and their families in our communities.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

Timeless, so age don't count in the booth When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!

A lot of people my age are so hyper. I like hyper people.

Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill

If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.