Quotes About Youth

I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience.

Maybe we don't put our young people in situations often enough where they're allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don't fail as often.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

I have experience seducing nephews.

I never demonstrate how art should be made or what the outcome should look like. Instead, give kids the tools and the materials to make their own art. Have them experience the process.

Too many young people are being taught to give up their dreams before they have any experience attempting to pursue them.

Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes.

The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

If kids are studying for a test, they're not going to learn anything. We all know that from our own experience.

What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.

I have listened to college radio quite a lot. I never went to college, so actually the college radio station is sort of like the closest I got to some kind of college experience.

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.

It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.

youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.

A 45-year old looks a lot like a 25-year old who's been out all night. And feels just as good about having survived the experience.

My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.