Quotes About Youth

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings.

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.

But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.

I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

Pop music can play a large part in the way numerous young people determine their right to desire and their need to question.

Being young is wonderful. But one of the secrets of being a human individual - a mature human individual shall we put it rather grandly - is that you can see this desire in perspective.

I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.

Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?

I do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do.

I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.

I swear so soon as age will permit ... I will use fire and steel to arrest the destiny of Rome.

You have a great destiny before you. This is your moment! I truly believe that one virtuous young woman, led by the Spirit, can change the world.

Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Mom used to say I didn't run away from home my destiny just caught up with me at an early age.

It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.

As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.

This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity.

I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment.

You're as young as your dreams, not as old as your calendar

You continue to dream the wild dreams that you dream when you were young.