Quotes About Youth

You, our youth of today, are among the most illustrious spirits to be born into mortality in any age of the world. Yours is a noble heritage and a wonderful opportunity.

The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.

We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.

I'm the same age as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth.

Everyone sort of feels alienated at that point, so it's hard to say whether I felt like that because everyone does or because I was so focused on acting [since the age of 8].

I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three.

A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

I'm sick of people imposing cultural references and influences on me, but I'm not sick of people talking about my age.

The saddest sight these days is the image of hundreds of thousands of children kidnapped and lured into being child soldiers from the age of eight.

Of course, I peed my pants, everyone my age pees their pants. It's the coolest.

By doing that and being very competitive, the grown-ups started telling me even back before I started playing organized ball that I was too physical and too advanced for the kids my own age.

The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.

I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.

In reality, people are people. Age does a weird thing to your body on the outside. It makes your face fall and weird things happen all over. But inside, you're the same person you always were.

It's a bit startling to achieve global recognition before the age of 30, on account of your sister, brother in law and your bottom.

Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger.

I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.

Boxing has been in my blood since I can remember. It comes naturally to me, and I've enjoyed it ever since I started, at the age of six.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.