Quotes About Youth

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

Young poets bewail the passing of love old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

Como biólogo especializado precisamente en el estudio de la naturaleza frente a la nutrición, no puedo dejar de destacar hasta qué punto nuestros hábitos están condicionados por la interacción más temprana entre nuestros genes y el entorno de nuestra infancia y juventud.

if I think (and I do) that Deepak Chopra talks nonsense when he tells people about quantum mechanical elixirs of youth, I would first have to be an expert in quantum mysticism. But the problem is that quantum mysticism is (I think) quackery, and that therefore there is no such thing as an "expert" on quantum mysticism.

I was a boy that age once, and I know that 97.7 percent of their bodies are semen and the 2.8 percent is an incendiary device for spraying it.

Some people age, and some just dehydrate.

Il doit rester quelques rêves d'enfant cachés sous mon oreiller, je tenterais de ne pas les écraser avec ma tête lourde de soucis d'adulte.

le rock' n' roll, c'est un oasis d'adrénaline pour enfants perdus.

Moon almost full I'm thirty-nine a child still

If kids stay up late, it's very bad for their brain development...they said that on TV....You want to become a stupid girl, Yuuki?

He'd give anything to be out there playing instead of standing here watching. Trying to maintain this smile out of respect. He digs into his wrists some more with his nails. Breaks previously broken skin and pulls away. A smear of blood he wipes away with his other hand, rubs off across his dark jeans. Back home his mom is always on him to stop digging, but that only makes him want to dig more." -exerpt from "Mexican White Boy

At the risk of sounding like Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite who can't let go of the past

We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

I have to admit that humans waste a lot of their time - almost all of it - with hypothetical stuff. I could be rich. I could be famous. I could have been hit by that bus. I could have been born with fewer moles and bigger breasts. I could have spent more of my youth learning foreign languages. They must exercise the conditional tense more than any other known life form.

School is a joke. But go along with it, because you are very near to the punchline.

It's such a weird thing for young people to look at distorted images of things they should be.' —Daisy Ridley, on why she quit Instagram

In California the only way to look like you are getting older is to look like you are getting younger...if you can move your forehead over the age of forty, then people become very suspicious.

It seems that worrying about growing old is a sign you are young.

Experience surrounds innocence and innocence can never be regained once lost.

As a child I used to worry about death a lot. Certainly more than a child should.

I regret not having a gap year after university.

Remember When we were young enough Not to fear tomorrow Or mourn yesterday And we were just Us And time was just Now And we were in Life Not rising through Like arms in a sleeve Because we had time We had time to breathe