Quotes About Youth

She was wearing her new purple miniskirt with the split up the side and an incredibly bright red lipstick she had bought off the internet that was guaranteed to drive boys wild

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year-old men more.

Tad and a couple of his friends had been asked by Tom to move 150 to 200 large metal corral poles from the front yard to a location beyond the canal. The poles were of varying length and were seven to eight inches in diameter and weighed between 25 and 150 pounds each. It took the three teenagers about four hours of hard work to complete the job. The boys finished about noon.

For someone so young, I think an awful lot about mortality.

I am but one young man with a vision and dream to change world as I see the inadequacies as of the world at present.

Jesse has to die in order for him to be immortalised as the young effigy that he is.

No different from others of my age am I for I feel the pressures of the age in which I live: that of attraction, wealth and popularity.

Thinking back to a time when everything seemed so simple.

Those whom say the youth know nothing are those whom know nothing themselves, as proven so by such a notion.

To create The Philosophy as it does now exist, the youth and the sacrifice of my youth has been necessary.

We all grow old. Some of us prolong it. Others accelerate it. Nobody can prevent it.

Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending.

She wanders on like a poplar leaf borne upon a whirlwind of unconscious associations, she, her youth, her illusions and her former happiness remembered now through the mists of a ruined mind.

I have always felt an infamous weakness for the pale youth of the college student and the sickly children of the factories!

I shall set down in a few lines how upright Maldoror was during his early years, when he lived happy. There: done.

Vosotros, que pasáis por este puente, no prosigáis. El crimen y el vicio habitan aquí; un día, sus amigos aguardaron en vano a un joven que había cruzado la puerta fatal.

All I ask is one thing, and I'm asking this particularly of young people: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?

There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.

Only memories stay the same, young lad. Everything else changes

The horizons were wide enough for them all, he realised now, but the wisdom of age is bitter when those you have failed have gone. He could not bring back the years of his youth and live them with greater understanding.

A brave man could conquer fear, he had learned that, but perhaps only for a time. It was something the young did not understand, the way it could gnaw at a man, the way it came back stronger every time, until you were alone and gasping for breath.