Quotes About Youth

As a kid I always wanted to be a centre-forward. I wanted the buzz and thrill of scoring goals from an early age.

For those whose goal it is to twist wrong into right, a good starting point is to convince young people that the vulgar is beautiful.

My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.

My goal as a young man, to be fat, famous and financially fixed by 50.

My goal was just to try and be the best player on my high school team, and look where I am now. And that was still my goal as a young kid, just to try and be a little better than my brother was.

One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

We are only young once. That is all society can stand.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

I really like to have sweet people around me. I can't stand bad asses. There's too many of them, especially my age in LA. I like to get to know people, and you have to peel away so many layers of those people. Just give me someone who's relaxed and c.

I went on a children's roller coaster once when I was maybe 12-or some age when I was considered a little old to be on a kiddy ride. Absolutely terrified. Thought I was going to die.

When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak.

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

35 is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and how well you look.