Quotes About Youth

Are you there? Say a prayer for the pretender who started out so young and strong only to surrender

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

I ain't gonna lie. I like having my girl take care of me this way. I can't wait 'til she finish high school and we can live together somewhere on our own. I'ma support her while she in college, pay all the bills and shit, and she can take care of me like this everyday. Man, that's the way I wanna be living.

Youth is not the age to seduce, it's the age to be seduced.

Everything that astonished me when I was young astonishes me even more today. The time will never come for me when there are no more discoveries to make. Every morning the world is as new again and I will not cease to flower except through death.

She (her mother) noticed that I was prettier than I was at home. Thus do girls change color in the warmth of masculine desire, whether they are fifteen or thirty.

Entre les jeunes mariés ça va trop bien ou ça va trop mal. Et je ne sais pas lequel vaut le mieux. Mais ça ne va jamais tout seul.

Dans le « programme des examens » les choses ne se passent pas comme dans la vie.

At what age did I start to think that where I was going was more important than where I already was? When was it that I began to believe that the most important thing about what I was doing was getting it over with? Knowing how to live is not something we have to teach children. Knowing how to live is something we have to be careful not to take away from them.

When did we get too old for this, Daeng? What happened to those days when we were somersaulting through the air with a cutlass in each hand taking out the enemy twenty at a time?" "I don't think that was us, Love. That was Bruce Lee.

She wasted and grew so thin that she no longer was a little girl, but the shadow of a little girl. The flame of her life flickered so faintly that it appeared sufficient to blow at it to extinguish it. Stas understood that death did not have to wait for a third attack to take her and he expected it any day or any hour.

The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls. (translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)

Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.

Eternity is like a child playing at draughts; the kingdom belongs to a child.

Time is a child playing dice; the Kingly power is a child's.

You can't go home again. Your childhood is lost. The friends of your youth are gone. Your present is slipping away from you. Nothing is ever the same.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized.

[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without a conscience a man may never be said to grow old. This is an age of very old young men.

Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt.

Older men declare war. But its the youth who must fight and die!