Quotes About Youth

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but I am getting old, and soon I shall remember only the latter.

In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race — never quite sane in the night.

A great person is one who affects the younger generation by his positivity

George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - he could not even lie.

Youth, large, lusty, loving- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.

I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids.

I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness.

Young people are the same as they always were. They are just as ignorant.

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

It's funny, I listen to friends who talk about back when they were 14, eight, 16, whatever, as if it was yesterday. Me, I've no idea what I did. It's all a blur, I'm afraid.

Statistics show that teen pregnancy drops off significantly after age 2

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.

I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character.

Boys in their twenties are a waste of time. They have nothing to offer conversationally; they're immature. I feel like I have a better shot with someone in his thirties.

He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

John Green, Looking for Alaska

Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers.

I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.