Quotes About Youth

A young girl needs to spread her wings, but a young woman needs roots.

Only where children gatheris there any real chance of fun.

We can't let the next generation grow up without heroes. Some of us have to fight on!

Adolescence is a marketing tool.

Keep the enthusiasm of your youth and treasure the wisdom of old age.

To all young people out there: This is the time you should be fearless but not jobless. Identify the right job, find what excited you the most, find what you are the most passionate about.

Happier'n young'uns bustin' outta school fer summer break!

Prouder than a preschooler showin' refrigerator art!

Your chronological age makes you older, grownNess is a state of mind!

The adult were once young.The young have not yet attained adulthood.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The children are the future, so, let's tell them about tomorrow's hope rather than yesterday's despair.

What if you'd live every day as if you were our society's future and hope?

In our beautiful memoryWe were all handsomeWe could all singWe all had the heart Of the prettiest girl in townAnd we all hit .300

Somewhere along the line, the crazy youth hostelers I kept seeing everywhere stopped looking so crazy.

Younger people could dredge up an impressive number of dark words to express their pain. As writers got older and older, their negative emotion vocabulary diminished and their positive emotion word count skyrocketed. As

'Twill make old women young and fresh, Create new motions of the flesh. And cause them long for you know what, If they but taste of chocolate.

Ghosts walked beside Condley on the muddy trails, dirty and unshaven, burdened by helmets and packs and weapons, loping tiredly, all parts of their bodies half asleep while their eyes stayed bright with fear. The ghosts would always be there, young-faced and yearning, even as time itself erased the evidence of their passing. It was a burden rather than a talent that Condley could walk a village trail and be in two time zones at once, the past just as fresh as today.

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

The man who has not loved before he was fourteen has missed a foretaste of Elysium.

I lived between my music and books, on the whole a rather unwholesome life for a boy to lead. I dwelt in a world of imagination, of dreams and air castles--the kind of atmosphere that sometimes nourishes a genius, more often men unfitted for the practical struggles of life.

Oh! the old swimmin' hole! When I last saw the place,The scenes was all changed, like the change in my face.

if she had known just a few months before, during more innocent times, that she would feel that way for the rest of her life....which is to say conflicted, she would have treasured those unaware, nonjudgmental, preadolescent moments more thoroughly. (Oh, to be eleven again!) Because once you know, once you really know how the world works, you can't unknow it.

I stop painting entirely. I get a job in advertising. I get older. I grow up, I suppose. I never look back except in those moments when I can't stop fucking thinking about it.