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Quotes About Youth

I never tell my age because I hope I'll always be the new kid on the block.
~ Patrick Kelly
I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.
~ Lynne Rae Perkins
The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish.
~ Bette Lord
Hollywood actresses age in dog years. I'm 25 in the rest of the world, but I'm about 48 in actress years. I'm just around the corner from my midlife crisis.
~ Amber Heard
I'm a teen-age bride.
~ Marta Kristen
I started writing songs at age 15.
~ Vince Clarke
I hate when a show has an age limit. Like a little tiny child is standing outside, like, 'Hey, I wanted to go but I couldn't.' That sucks.
~ Vince Staples
I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.
~ Charles Dickens
Almost any age is better than twenty-two.
~ David Rakoff, Fraud: Essays
About 800 million people in India are below the age of 35 years. Their aspirations, energy, enterprise and skills will be the force for India's economic transformation.
~ Narendra Modi
When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.
~ Victor Hugo
In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue.
~ Samuel Johnson
I think that you are only obliged to be a humorist from the age of 18 until you turn 30. Past the age of 30 I don't think there is any obligation to be clever at all.
~ Garrison Keillor
As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly.
~ Coco Chanel
I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.
~ James Thurber
I started acting professionally at age 19.
~ Bruce Boxleitner
I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
~ Gaby Hoffmann
When you reach a certain age, suddenly there are lots of people younger than you, which is really startling.
~ Fran Lebowitz
You can't win a majority mandate unless you get back 60 per cent of the votes between the ages of 18 and 35. It's a fact.
~ Kevin O'Leary
I am young and beautiful... at every age.
~ Louise Hay
Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields.
~ Anton Chekhov
For only that which we knew and practiced at age 15 will one day constitute our attraction. And one thing, therefore, can never be made good: having neglected to run away from home.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
I haven't put on a baseball uniform since about age 12. It's like I'm wearing a Halloween costume. I'm pretending to be a ballplayer.
~ Ken Fox
At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.
~ Ahmet Zappa