Quotes About Youth

What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ...Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.

That vague, crepuscular time, the time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth has passed, but old age has not yet arrived.

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

M?odo?? to nic takiego, przejdzie z wiekiem...

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.

Het schenden van grenzen heeft iets opwindends. Hij herinnerde zich de blik van jonge Duitse soldaten op journaalfilms.

Laura had read somewhere that tweens—eight to fourteen-year-olds—had so much discretionary income and expensive tastes that they drove the whole economy. Not just the US economy, but the world's. She

In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.

I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye…. If they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy.

Hollywood flicks are fun, if your idea of a good time is a hamburger and a milk shake. America invented the movies so it would never need to grow up. We have angst, depression and middle-aged regret. They have Hollywood.

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

The I-Kiribati are a remarkably musical people. Everyone sings. There is something arresting about seeing a tough-looking teenage boy suddenly put a flower behind his ear and begin to croon.

our civilization is very young. None of us live long enough to cope with too much. About the time we begin to get our thoughts straightened out we begin to go senile. Or, in the mean time, we've been knocked over by a taxicab or died of the plague or something else. We don't live that long.

Children are the builders of the future!

The conformist is not born. He is made. I believe the brainwashing process begins in the schools and colleges.

I think God has planned the strength and beauty of youth to be physical. But the strength and beauty of old age is spiritual. We gradually lose the strength and beauty that is temporary so we'll be sure to concentrate on the strength and beauty that is forever. And so we'll be eager to leave the temporary deteriorating part of us and be truly homesick for our eternal home. If we stayed young and strong and beautiful we might never want to leave.