Quotes About Youth

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

It was like seeing Bill Gates at age thirteen, times two. And half of him was wearing a cheerleader uniform. Yes, I know that's a weird image.

It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.

He was a player that hasn't had to use his legs even when he was nineteen years of age because his first two yards were in his head.

I am considered an icon at the age of 20 when people like after 40s or after they die are considered icons. It's just amazing!

Teach players the game at an early age and stop treating them like cash cows for everyone to profit off of.

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

When I was 16, I got 'Jamon, Jamon.' Of course, I had to lie about my age. And I had to lie to my parents about the content of the script.

We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.

I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.

I wanted to try something different. Most people my age go off to college; I thought I'd try out New York.

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

Now we are living in the age of comics as air

within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.

The first concert I attended was an Elvis concert when I was eleven. Even at that age he made me realize the tremendous effect a performer could have on an audience.

Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.

I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.