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Quotes About Youth

If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect—its effect upon conscious experience—we may well believe that this lesson has been learned largely through dealings with the young.
~ John Dewey
our daily associations cannot be trusted to make clear to the young the part played in our activities by remote physical energies, and by invisible structures. Hence a special mode of social intercourse is instituted, the school, to care for such matters.
~ John Dewey
With people who are young and aren't scared you can do lots.
~ John Dos Passos
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
~ John Dryden
All heiresses are beautiful.
~ John Dryden
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
~ John Dryden
In our youth-oriented culture, aging is feared, something to be put off as long as possible.It has been said:"Everyone wants to live a long time, but no one wants to grow old.
~ John Dunlop
Everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. This story is part of everyone's life.
~ Charlie Rowe
Life is short so go on and live it cause the chicks dig it.
~ Chris Cagle
I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s.
~ Christophe Honore
I think we look back at times past with fondness because we were younger. Life had not yet begun pecking away at our innocence like buzzards on fresh road kill.
~ Craig Ferguson
There's this incredible pressure, especially on teens, to be perfect, look right, have the right clothes, date the right people, get into the right school, have the right home life, and so on.
~ Deborah Reber
Our youth [with their overwhelming support of Obama] are voting for a permanent tax on their life
~ Dennis Prager
Young girls envy the life yall leading, never satisfied with a nice calm evening
~ Drake
For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.
~ Grace Paley
That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook of my life. And there are about 2,000 volumes.
~ Hugh Hefner
You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?'
~ Ian Hislop
The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
~ Indira Gandhi
I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.
~ Jacques Derrida
Vampires are so sexy and powerful - they're so otherworldly; they have eternal life and youth.
~ Jessica Clark
Life was just a tire swing. 'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing. Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken, And I never knew a thing about pain. Life was just a tire swing.
~ Jimmy Buffett
I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.
~ John Green
For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.
~ Jon Fishman