Quotes About Youth

Kids are afraid that if they race too fast they will get tired. Way too much fear and way too little COURAGE.

Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write when I was too young to know what was good for me.

He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.

Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.

Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Educate every child for a good courage.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference.

We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat.

It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.

My favorite football memory isn't beating Florida or winning the bowl game ... My favorite memories are of playing football with my brothers and my dad in the front yard when I was younger.

I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to pay for them.

I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25.

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth £37 million now. My dad wouldn't talk to me for a fortnight.

I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.

I don't want to be an old dad.

I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.'

When I was a kid my dad would say, "Emo, do you believe in the Lord?" I'd say, "Yes!" He'd say, "Then stand up and shout Hallelujah!" So I would ... and I'd fall out of the roller coaster.

I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

When my dad toured in '91, I think my first gig properly was the Tokyo Dome, 50,000 people indoors. That was pretty scary. I was 12, or 13.