Quotes About Youth

The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.

When I was a kid I got no respect. I told my mother, I'm gonna run away from home. She said, On your mark.

My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.

We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.

How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?

Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years lease

No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.

When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert DeNiro and as experienced as him and have the same respect as he did in that movie.

Age demands respect; youth, love.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Tons of comedians have said, 'I grew up learning from Bill Cosby. He's great.' But that respect doesn't mean much to the young people. They like their ginger ale with hot sauce.

I ask the educational system, the parents, the church, and pillars of the community to help shape a new culture of honesty, patriotism, respect, discipline and service for young Filipinos.

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers.

It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is generally the most foolish romantic.

You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.

happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.

I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young woman, both with high dreams and restless, romantic aspirations

A cynic is a kind of romantic who has aged.

People were destined for one another; that's the romantic idea that young girls have, and I guess part of me still believes it.

Me growing up in the '60s and '70s, there was almost something romantic about drugs, Keith Richards taking drugs and stuff.

Lynet scowled. "I'm just so tired of young knights wearing their father's armor and dreaming romantic dreams riding up to their death.

I think perhaps I touch on a different passion in people. It's not simple the passion of rock 'n' roll rebellion - it's more romantic than sexual.

I was always intensely Romantic, even when I was too young to understand what that meant.