Quotes About Youth

So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.

If youth was not wasted, how could it be youth?

One could choose between innocence and experience, but one could not have both.

One could choose between innocence and experience, but one could not have both. At

They were average specimens of national manhood, slim and gaunt with deeply tanned skin from riding in jeeps and on motorcycles.

If youth was not wasted, how could it be youth? Perhaps

would fall in love with the young, handsome,

What drives a fourteen-year-old to swear a blood oath to a blood brother? And more important, what makes a grown man believe in that oath? Should not the things that count, like ideology and political belief, the ripe fruit of our adulthood, matter more than the unripe ideals and illusions of youth? Let me propose that truth, or some measure of it, can be found in these youthful follies that we forget, to our loss, as adults.

If youth was not wasted, how could it be youth?...Let me propose that truth, or some measure of it, can be found in these youthful follies that we forget, to our loss, as adults.

But for all we thought we knew about them, there were some things we knew we did not know even after many years of forced and voluntary intimacy, including the art of making cranberry sauce, the proper way of throwing a football, and the secret customs of secret societies, like college fraternities, which seemed to recruit only those who would have been eligible for the Hitler Youth. Not

How rarely these few years, as work keeps up aloof, Or fares, or one thing or another, How we had days to spend under our parents' roof; Myself, my sister, and my brother. All five of us will die; to reckon from the past This flesh and blood is unforgiving. What's hard is that just one of us will be the last To bear it all and go on living.

Perhaps it is true that for all the evidence of the mirror, one pictures oneself in some deep niche of the mind as forever 18.

I vecchi si aggrappano al potere e alle loro convinzioni, che ammettono tutti i loro vizi peggiori ma escludono il minimo errore e soffocano la minima innovazione dei giovani. Poi, grazie a Dio, muoiono e non possono fare più danni. Ma ormai noi, i giovani, siamo diventati vecchi, e ci sforziamo di quel po' di male che loro hanno lasciato incompiuto.

An old man marrying a young girl is like buying a car for somebody else to drive.

Don't deceive yourself with you age, it is just a number.

The child weeps for its good and the old man for his ill.

The trouble with life is that by the time you know how to play the game, you are too old to make the team.

You may make fun of those who are under 6 and over 70 if you will, because they will get neither angry nor sad. Moreover, they will not even hurt you by their words.

You're young if you're healthy and rich if you have no debts.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I'm thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn't a cool thing to be.

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

You can live to be old or young, but you'll always have moments when you lose your head.