Quotes About Youth

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

If you want to look young and thin on your birthday. Hang around a bunch of old fat people.

I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.'

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.

Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.

It's your 21st birthday... What are you doing sober at the front row of a concert? Is it your 21st birthday? By the end of the night I promise... we will get you drunk, my friend.

I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.

Twenty-five, he was. Twenty-five tomorrow. Some years the snow had melted for his birthday, but not this year, and so it had been a long winter full of cows.

When you're a kid and you're in a classroom, anybody would die to be hanging out in London or having their sixteenth birthday in Japan.

I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of it. What have I done these last thirty years? Precious little.

At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.

What a childhood I had. Once on my birthday my ol' man gave me a bat. The first day I played with it, it flew away.

You know who you remind me of? The kid cop in Lethal Weapon 3. You know, the one who says, 'it's my twenty-first birthday today', and right away you know he's dead meat?