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Quotes About Youth

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
~ Jacqueline Bisset
At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything.
~ Nathanael West
When I was young, I wanted my appearance to be more interesting than what surrounded me. Now the body part I like best is my eyes, because they bring beauty to me.
~ Diane Keaton
In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.
~ Edward G. Robinson
Beauty is a rebellion against time.
~ Milan Kundera
My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.
~ Mary Chapin Carpenter
The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty over brains is that the all-American boy can see better than he can think.
~ Farrah Fawcett
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.
~ Ambrose Philips
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
~ Helen Rowland
All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.
~ William T. Wiley
Hold fast to youth and beauty.
~ Elizabeth Arden
That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.
~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Gather, gather your youth: Just like this flower, old age Your beauty will wither.
~ Pierre de Ronsard
For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.
~ Anne Lamott
Starlets were always turning up dead in people's pools. They fished them out like goldfish. Nobody seemed to find it unusual that so many young, beautiful women wanted to die.
~ Jonathan Rosen, Eve's Apple
Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Girls throw away so much energy in this search for beauty and sexiness.
~ Miuccia Prada
Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.
~ Camille Paglia
When I got to be about 16,17 I got into a beauty pageant and I was allowed to start playing around with makeup.
~ Halle Berry
I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.
~ Gore Vidal
It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The power of a king lies in his mighty arms; that of a brahmana in his spiritual knowledge; and that of a woman in her beauty youth and sweet words.
~ Chanakya
Lila can't be a model until she's at least 21. She is already a mini-me - it is scary. She already has her own beauty kit.
~ Kate Moss
I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a big play.
~ Eric Bana