Quotes About Youth

The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.

But from the time I was very little, it was something I would do all the time, just sing, dance and act. So it wasn't something that was fake or contrived as I got older.

Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.

Not since I was 10, trying to get Nick Vossler's attention in PE. 'Red Rover, Red Rover, send Nicholas right over!'

The little ones still remember how to use the power of their imagination. They are still engaged in the utilization of their imagination, that is one of the reasons that keeps them so exhilarated.

Maybe more youngsters would stay home at nights if they were not afraid to stay alone at nights.

youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.

To be young, really young, takes a very long time.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter and mature glow.

Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.

Only children believe they're capable of everything.

1980's: not a time period but a state of mind.

Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear.

Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you're still a child.

S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe.

I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

When we are very young children we know how to feel. It's innate. But as we lead a lifetime, we pick up so many thoughts, impressions, feelings, and ideas, that our sensitivity goes away.

At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.

You know you are old when you've lost your marvels.

We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.

In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.