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Quotes About Youth

Before your mother I didn't spend too long with any one girl. I used to believe that life was too short. I was too young to settle down. Then I met your mother and fell in love. Now I think maybe I was right. I was too young to settle down.
~ Joey Comeau
We could have been perfect if only we'd met when we were both too young to know better.
~ Joey Comeau
Was ist trauriger: ältere Menschen wegen allem, was sie gesehen, gehabt und verloren? Oder Kinder ohne jeden blassen Schimmer von allem, was sie sehen, haben und verlieren werden? Das hier war noch trauriger: ein Kind mit der bedrückenden Weisheit eines alten Menschen.
~ Joey Goebel
It's every teenager's dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous.
~ Joey McIntyre
The word "school" has a curious history behind it. Meaning originally "leisure" it has now acquired precisely the opposite sense of systematic work and training, as civilization restricted the free disposal of the young man's time more and more and herded larger and larger classes of the young to a daily life of severe application from childhood onwards.
~ Johan Huizinga
Aki tökéletesen okos és komoly, az képtelen élni. Minél jobban eltávolodik tÅ'lem, Balgaságtól valaki, annál kevésbé él. Ugyan miért, mi okból csókolgatjuk, ölelgetjük a kisgyermekeket, ha nem azért, mert olyan csodálatosan balgák még. S mi más teszi az ifjúságot oly vonzóvá?
~ Johan Huizinga
Ne podetinji ljude starost, ko sto se kaze, no samo jos ko pravu decu zatice nas.
~ Johan Volfgang Gete
Starost nas ne podetinji; izraz je loš - starost nas zati?e ko pravu decu još.
~ Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe
Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
A vida é a infância da nossa imortalidade
~ Johann Goethe
Wouldn't it be better to spend our money on rescuing kids before they become addicts than on jailing them after we have failed?
~ Johann Hari
I'm so patriotic, I think every British kid should have a chance to grow up to be our head of state.
~ Johann Hari
If we can figure out at the age of five which kids are going to be addicts and which ones aren't, that tells us something fundamental about drug addiction. "Their relative maladjustment," the study found, "precedes the initiation of drug use." Indeed, "Problem drug use is a symptom, not a cause, of personal and social maladjustment.
~ Johann Hari
Parents beware! Your children . . . are being introduced to a new danger in the form of a drugged cigarette, marijuana. Young [people] are slaves to this narcotic, continuing addiction until they deteriorate mentally, become insane, [and] turn to violent crime and murder.
~ Johann Hari
Age merely shows what children we remain.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Once a man's thirty, he's already old,He is indeed as good as dead.It's best to kill him right away.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age does not make us childish, as they say.It only finds us true children still.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I see my discourse leaves you cold; Dear kids, I do not take offense; Recall: the Devil, he is old, Grow old yourselves, and he'll make sense!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe