Quotes About Youth

You dare speak to me in such an insolent manner?' 'Stop talking like you're two hundred years old. You're sixteen, just like me.

every child got a right to learn,

She wouldn't have sex with me in public bathrooms. Little things like this haunted me. I was only twenty-five.

In youth,' he said, speaking as if from a great distance, 'we believe, and the death of belief forces us to disavow all belief. But that disavowal, time softens, and if we do not believe, we hope. Belief is easier to kill, somehow, and its death easier to bear.

We've seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they're great images for the city to gravitate toward, especially for kids.

People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm 45.

You don't expect me to be doing this when I am THIRTY, do you?

I'd rather die than be 45 and still singing 'Satisfaction.

World War I was the final straw. Youth turned on their elders for making a hash of the world. Older men's values had produced a cataclysm, and young men had paid with their lives. "The older generation has certainly pretty well ruined this world before passing it on to us," wrote a young man in the Atlantic Monthly of September 1920, expressing the prevailing sentiment. How could the younger generation, the idea went, possibly do any worse?

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.

Simons selected a victim just like himself, namely a Coloured schoolboy between the ages of eight to fourteen. Symbolically he committed suicide when he killed that boy, for he was killing himself.

People consume music in a very different way. It doesn't seem to be as all-important as it used to be for us. Kids have got computer games and a million other things to keep themselves entertained. We had music and our imaginations, and that was it.

Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.

There is always some specific moment when we realize our youth is gone; but years after, we know it was much later.

Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty.

In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later.

Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.

How strange that the young should always think the world is against them — when in fact that is the only time it is for them.

Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.

The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.

Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.