Quotes About Youth

He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary.

I knew I wanted to direct since I was a kid. That was something I was always fascinated by and wanted to experience and see if I would be any good at it.

There's a genetic memory that stays on your bones. What you experience when you're young, I think it stays with you.

The first sexual experience is a significant imprinting of attention.

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

I was 16-years-old when I appeared on 'American Idol,' and the show was my boot camp. It was a crazy, stressful at times, experience.

I guess that's the upside of not being young anymore... You know from experience that the struggle always leads, in some way, to something better.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience.

Alas! How enthusiasm decreases, as our experience increases!

You're literally sized up with measuring tape as a 13- or 14-year-old girl. I wanted to opt out of that experience.

It's fair to say that if you have a lot of experience, your power is greater. You have more of an opportunity to roll up your sleeves with younger directors.

I'm sure most people have this experience: when you're young you drink, you do drugs, you stay up late, and there are no consequences.

My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.

Experience which destroys innocence also leads one back to it.

I'm just thankful that even at a young age, I got to experience something like 'X Factor, ' and I got to meet enough people just to know that I needed to be patient until the right deal came around.

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'

Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.

Being young is greatly overestimated ... Any failure seems so total. Later on you realize you can have another go.

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Failed the bright promise of your early day?