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Quotes About Youth

It makes me unhappy when brothers make babies and leave a young mother to be a pappy.
~ Tupac Shakur
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
~ Eric Hoffer
Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime...
~ William Shakespeare
It was her mother, I didn't know what to say, I was hanging by a string. She said, hey you two, I was once like you and liked to do the wild thing.
~ Tone-Loc
As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.
~ Thelma Golden
If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!
~ Andrei Platonov
When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.
~ Mira Sorvino
I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.
~ Jim Carrey
But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth Are children of one mother, even Love.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didnt dissuade me.
~ Carmen Ejogo
I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to join [Fidel] Castro was because my mother would not let me. I was only 16.
~ Huey Newton
I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.
~ Joyce Maynard
Nothing is ever going to describe in words what your mother looked like at twenty when the moonlight just fell on her face in such a way. Only a picture can show you that.
~ Maggie Steber
At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.
~ Don Tapscott
Mother my friends are no longer my friends And the games we once played have no meaning I've gone serious and shy and they can't figure why So they've left me to my own daydreaming.
~ Suzanne Vega
I have three daughters. I wanted them to be raised where there are real seasons and where everyone their age wasn't trying to get into movies.
~ Chevy Chase
When I was a young man, my mother said to me, 'You can't be a communist without being a militant atheist.' So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist.
~ Norman Finkelstein
When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found it.
~ Klaus Nomi
Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.
~ Peter Jurasik
John McCain responded to critics who say he's too old for a sixth term by saying that his mother is 103 years old and doing well. The crazy thing is that even she is somehow younger than John McCain.
~ Jimmy Fallon
My mother worked in fashion design and she used to show me all of these looks. She tried to get me to wear fitted jeans in high school. This is when big jeans were popping.
~ Iman Shumpert
Mother India has 250 crore arms, majority of which are of the youth, who have the capacity to fulfil India's dreams!
~ Narendra Modi
In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.
~ William Shakespeare