Quotes About Youth

Most kids are never told about one of life's most effective weapons: when to get pissed as hell. Show it. And then mean it.

The most amazing thing about young men is how invisible they were to you when you were young. It is also the most poignant.

I had never let myself fantasize about being with someone my own age, because it stopped being a fantasy at that point. It entered the realm of possibility, and that's where you can really get hurt.

To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.

The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth." – GENESIS 8:21

Some people my age are seduced by this libertarian idea of having very little of anything by way of a role for government. I found that in my personal experience, freedom is secured by good government just as it's threatened by bad government.

Amid sparkling creativity, spectacular innovation and unprecedented wealth, growing up in the West means for many a sense of alienation and a craving for intimacy, authenticity and hope.

God uses young people again and again to help restore and shape the destiny of nations...Young people stand at the heart of the salvation story.

I had grown up under the heroic spell of the Abstract Expressionist painters

The painting was food. He wanted to caress it, hold it in his hands, lick its glazed surface, plunge into it, dive into the Florentine light. Years vanished, decades were erased, and he was again the boy who had come here to the feast of art.

That was it. To be a rolling stone. In the romantic places of the earth. Ready for a fight, a frolic, or a feed. And since I was Irish, since I was Billy Hamill's son, since I was from Brooklyn: a drink too.

Later it might see moronic, but at that time it all made perfect sense.

Guys have four personalities: the one they use with their parents, the one they use around other adults, the one they use for talking to girls, and the one they use for hanging with their friends. Leakage between the various personality types can cause serious problems.

Where have all the flowers gone?The girls have picked them every one.Oh, when will they ever learn?

Hope I die before I get old.This is my generation.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

It's only teenage wasteland.

Don't cry Don't raise your eye Its only teenage wasteland.

The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.

I am growing old of course, but I am still in the early stages of disintegration, and regarded as just about cool enough by some fashionable young ppl to be permitted to think aloud.

Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.

I heard in my own voice the tulmult of a young man playig a role, uneasily, repackaging black R&B music from America, relying on gimmicky outfits, and pretending to be wild & free when in reality he needed to be looked after by his mother.

People say, "You've gotta go on, man, otherwise all those kids, they'll be finished, they'll have nothing to live for." That's rock and roll!

Some kid writes in to me and says, 'I've got all your records and I listen to your music all day long and I look at your pictures all the time and I write to you and all I get is a bleedin' autographed picture. You don't know how much time I spend thinkin' about you lot.' I write him back and say, 'You don't know how much time I spend looking at and thinking about teenagers.