Quotes About Youth

One of the biggest challenges we have, folks, is making liberty and freedom cool.

A generation educated in fearless freedom will have wider and bolder hopes than are possible to us

I grew up in Chicago on the South Side, and had a ton of freedom, just did whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. At the risk of sounding dopey, I would say it was blissful.

You just have this freedom when you're younger - this lack of concern to fail or do anything wrong. It comes with an ease that I've found has kind of deteriorated over time.

If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.

People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom.

My childhood memories are amazing I had freedom in every way - but I see everything from a different perspective now that I live outside.

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

Dear young people, Jesus wants to be your friend, and wants you to spread the joy of this friendship everywhere.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

Growing up, my next door neighbor was my best friend and an only child too.

There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.

It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.

Sneaking out the back door to hand out with those hoodlum friends of mine.

I was 21 and I got to film with my best friend.

In high school, my desire for friendship far outweighed my talent for it.

'Shake It Up' definitely teaches kids about the importance of reaching for your dreams and setting high goals. It also teaches great lessons about friendship and family.

So I just went over and sat with him. Not a biggie. I wish people would stop trying to turn it into something more. He's just a kid. The weirdest-looking kid I've ever seen, yes. But just a kid.

She is one of my best friends. Why I've known her ever since we were the same age.

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.

At sixteen, I was a funny, skinny little thing, all eyelashes and legs. And then, suddenly people told me it was gorgeous. I thought they had gone mad.

Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause ? you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.