Quotes About Youth

"Beauty fades," my father would tell me, "but dumb? Dumb is forever."

So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.

I may be a young girl, but behind every young girl is a powerful father.

How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.

I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.

Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.

When I was young, my father was lord Of a small kingdom: a wife, a garden, Kids for whom his word was Word. It took years for my view to harden, To shrink him to human size.

A lot of people ask me about my father's passing when I was young, which I'm never comfortable with. I invariably move around that subject.

The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.

My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.

I think it reminds me of my childhood, my father, .. I think people have the same reaction. It reminds you of what it was like to be a kid, where everything is carefree and fun.

The child is the father of man.

My father is quite conservative and religious, and hes been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

If we can just get young people to do the same as their fathers did, that is, wear condoms

Every father expects his boy to do the things he wouldn't do when he was young.

As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.

The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.

His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of it." -Jonah Griggs

I made films from the - when I was a little kid, my father bought me a movie camera. I just wanted to. I don't know how. You just learn, you just do it. You just do it.

Healthy boys grow into healthy men.

I quit my job in the bank when I was 19. I took a chance. I went to Milan to study opera and singing. My father really supported me economically.

I loved 'Gladiator' when I was young. Russell Crowe was a big inspiration the fact that he plays my father in 'Noah' was amazing.