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Quotes About Youth

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
~ John Dryden
A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.
~ Ambrose Bierce
This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it's very much finding my own place.
~ Yo-Yo Ma
When it comes down to it, it's about who you know, and who's a fan. It's about whether you're the right age, whether you're hot or not, whether the studio is into you or not.
~ Marlee Matlin
At 68 I'm every age I ever was. I always think of that. I'm not just 68. I'm also 55 and 21 and three. Oh especially three.
~ George Carlin
I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh
~ Simon Le Bon
In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.
~ Horace
When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.
~ Azar Nafisi
The Houston Astros are the youngest team in the National League if you judge by age.
~ Don Drysdale
Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
~ Gloria Steinem
From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.
~ Gugu Mbatha-Raw
It was between the ages of 14 and 20 and I started off not eating at all, maybe an apple a day.
~ Torrie Wilson
How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!
~ Oliver Goldsmith
At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it.
~ Curtis Jackson
Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.
~ Walt Whitman
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
~ Benjamin Haydon
I lost my innocence at age eight, so I decided to do the same to as many young girls as I could.
~ Pedro
Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.
~ Tony DiCicco
It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the play-things of childhood.
~ Samuel Johnson
Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage.
~ Robert Browning
I think when you're younger, you need to socialize and be with people your own age.
~ Bonnie Wright
He who sees age on the outside of things is doomed to underestimate the vitality of raisins.
~ Philip K. Jason
I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career.
~ Roger Bannister
I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.
~ Ray Bradbury