Quotes About Youth

There's so much talk about the Drug Generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.

When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family.

I had the benefit of experiencing a hundred times more than the average kid. I don't look back with regret at all. It was the best life ever.

Establish in the mind of a young person the powerful idea that he or she is a child of God, and you have given self-respect and motivation to move against the problems of life.

Don't give up your life because balance is important, but when you're young you have energy, use it!

As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn't favor the stability and spatial demands of painting.

The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.

That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.

Youth is the spring-time of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we know.

Put me in any city, I'll end up doing something with kids. That's the time of your life when it's pure fun.

For what endless years this life will have to go on! He felt, with a kind of horror, his own strong youth and the bounding blood in his veins.

Hold fast to life and youth.

I can't maintain the body of a 16-year-old anymore. That's just a really boring life to me. You really just cannot do anything fun, ever.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Recently, a six-year-old boy said to me, "I've been waiting to meet you for half my life."

You are young, and I am older; You are hopeful, I am not- Enjoy life, ere it grow colder- Pluck the roses ere they rot.

Children don't heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.

The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.

When we're young we have a very clear vision of how life is supposed to be, and it all seems very neatly packaged.

When you're younger you have so many ideas about yourself; everything is important. It's not when you look back, nothing is that important. It's only life.

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.

In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.