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Quotes About Youth

It is my job to make sure that these kids who are talented get every chance they can and not to be passed over; this is life or death for them.
~ Paula Abdul
My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.
~ Rick Bass
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
~ Marilyn Monroe
For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
~ Margaret Fuller
To catch a wave, to stand up - it was just life-changing. There was nothing that even came close. I quit playing all other sports - by the time I was eleven, they were toast.
~ Rob Machado
My whole life has been the skate life. I don't really remember doing anything besides skateboarding.
~ Ryan Sheckler
At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned.
~ Albert Schweitzer
I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with fears of the unknown and the unknowable to poison all their joy in life.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I learned to fall down early in life - I was like six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.
~ Matthew Perry
When people think of Aerosmith, I want them to think of the music we've made and nothing else. I don't want the responsibility of some young kid trying to live his life like I did back in the '70's.
~ Steven Tyler
Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
~ Honore de Balzac
No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
~ Horatio Alger
I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and imagination saved my life.
~ Jean-Pierre Jeunet
I grew up as a photo nut. Every Christmas I would get a new camera. It's a huge part of my life.
~ Kevin Systrom
Honesty is most important, and it's difficult when you're young and single and sort of figuring out your own life.
~ Zac Efron
By the time you learn the rules of life, you're too old to play the game.
~ Grenville Kleiser
University is the best couple of years of your life. Nowhere else can you drink and chase as many birds.
~ Michael O'Leary
Children make you want to start life over.
~ Muhammad Ali
There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
~ Agnes Repplier
As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
~ Bear Grylls
We are young, but We already know that in life's great game those who are most unhappy are those who haven't taken the risk to be happy. And I don't want to be one of those
~ Guillaume Musso
Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell.
~ Howie Mandel
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.
~ James Thurber
Fine # wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.
~ Julia Child