Quotes About Youth

I am firmly convinced today that, generally speaking, it is in youth that men lay the essential groundwork of their creative thought, wherever that creative thought exists. I distinguish between the wisdom of age-which can only arise from the greater profundity and foresight that are based on the experiences of a long life-and the creative genius of youth.

You have to commit yourself to the notion of honor, at the earliest age. For us, the German youth of the future must be slim and slender, swift as greyhounds, tough as leather and hard as steel. What we want from our German youth is different from what the past wanted from them. We must raise a new man. So that we are able to give the German people a new idea, and to unite the people through this idea, and to lead them to a new way of life.

Mi sono convinto che l'uomo, salvo particolarissimi casi, non deve occuparsi apertamente di politica prima di avere trent'anni. Prima di quell'età si forma in lui solo una base generale, dalla quale egli poi esamina i concreti problemi politici e stabilisce definitivamente i suoi rapporti con essi. Solo dopo aver raggiunto una simile visione basilare del mondo, che l'uomo maturo ha, potrà partecipare alla direzione politica della collettività

The extreme emphasis on purely intellectual education, and the consequent neglect of physical training, necessarily leads to sexual thoughts in early youth. Those youth whose constitutions have been trained and hardened by sports and gymnastics are less prone to sexual indulgence than those stay-at-homes who have been fed exclusively with intellectual fare... a healthy young man will have different expectations from a woman than those of a weakling who has been prematurely corrupted.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Mladý muž je tehdy bohatý, má-li rozum v hlav? a dobrý oblek ve sk?íni.

I'm at that place I grew up to leave.

Coco, however, courted consequence; she was still a girl, and she still assumed a connection between what she was doing and what she wanted and what might result.

So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you'll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper. Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they're 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn't meet their life expectancy. I'm here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.

I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

I came across a lot of young composers who have got passion but lack experience. I want to help them out.

As a kid, baseball was always my passion.

There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.

Being excitable and passionate is what makes you look good because if you're engaged in what's going on, you radiate youth.

I started in dance classes when I was, like, seven years old. And the arts in general, it kept me not only off the street, I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, so it kept my mind focused. It kept me passionate about something. So I wasn't easily distracted.

The only movies I want to do are the ones I'm passionate about. I care about school, and I'm still a kid. I want to live like that while I can.

Now here I am playing a passionate young Irishman who would die for what he believes in.

My best friend was really cool, and she went to a youth theatre in Paisley, so I thought maybe that's the way to do it. I went along, and I immediately found something I was passionate about and really enjoyed.

There are certain times when I was younger, I was occasionally more passive.

I came up in Brooklyn singing doo-wop music from the time I was 13 to the time I was 20. That music served a purpose of keeping a lot of people out of trouble, and also it was a passport from one neighborhood to another.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.