Quotes About Youth

the longer the life-span, the more stagnant and ossified a species would become. There was something to be said for experience, but youth brought fresh blood and bold new ideas. A dose of much-needed vitality.

In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage — so long are you young. When the wires are all down and our heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.

But it is also a result of young people being educated to a level at which they look down on apparently mundane or unglamorous labour. Aside from the racial insinuation that we are above such roles whereas others are eminently suited to them, we should ask ourselves why our young people are (if they are) 'above' such tasks.

Dr Johanna Olson-Kennedy.

Devane saw Dundas hurrying to meet them and said dryly, 'Thanks Ralph. How can Barker have served in 1919 in a destroyer, and have lost a son in North Africa, and still look so young?' Beresford smiled. 'Will power and hair dye. Never fails.

The point of a true education is to, by the grace of God, learn how to refuse to let the soul get old.

Had he ever told Cindi about that junior high crush? Probably. What did it matter? There had been three other crushes, probably that same year. That's what junior high is for.

Uncertainty was part of the appeal. That was just one problem with ministering to the youth of today?—?riding the wave of cool and contemporary youth ministry was like surfing the big ones, and with one false move, there you were with sand in your trunks.

If boys don't learn, men won't know.

I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere.

So it is not age that is threatened by youth, but the other way around. Youth is threatened by age.

Be grateful you're not in the forest in France Where the average young person just hasn't a chance To escape from the perilous pants eating plants But your pants are safe, you're a fortunate guy You ought to be shouting how lucky am I

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Kid. You'll move mountains!

Tarry a moment to watch the chaos of a playground, crayola-colored shirts of running children, all trying out their wings.

Watching a child's laughter teach a candle's flame how to dance.

Young girls envy the life yall leading, never satisfied with a nice calm evening.

But get it while youre here boy, cause all that hype dont feel the same next year boy.

This lost boy got fly without Peter Pan.

I know they say the first love is the sweetest but that first cut is the deepest.

I keep thinking how young can you die from old age.

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.