Quotes About Youth

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.

I truly believe that age - if you're healthy - age is just a number.

He's tough (Tiger Woods). I wish I was that tough when I was his age.

The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.

A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries.

A grandma is old on the outside and young on the inside.

I don't look my age, I don't feel my age and I don't act my age. To me age is just a number.

Age to women is what kryptonite is to Superman. Inside every older woman is a younger woman screaming, 'Get me the hell outta here.'

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

I never spent much time with people my own age.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

Youth is a disease from which we all recover.

And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.

Twenty is a wonderful age for things to be sparked.

I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.

Age is not based on chronology, but psychology.