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Quotes About Youth

It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun.
~ Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do.
~ Russell Brand
I get my inspiration from everyday life, things people my age are going through in life, good and bad experiences.
~ Manika
These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it's true to life.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
You try to be young, maybe you like to have a few toys, but it's not the most important thing in life.
~ Diego Della Valle
Nothing needs to happen to a writer's life after they are 20. By then they've experienced more than enough to last their creative life.
~ Flannery O'Connor
I am going to turn over a new life and am going to be a very good girl and be obedient to Isa Keith, here there is plenty of gooseberries which makes my teeth watter.
~ Marjorie Fleming
I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.
~ Mark Hoppus
For life, good youth, hath never an illWhich hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot kill;And stubborn realities never shall bindThe free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.
~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
Old age likes indecency. It's a sign of life.
~ Mason Cooley
All the bloomy flush of life is fled.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
I first got into fruit when I was a teenager, when my life was changing in every way. The first time I had a mango, at like 18, I was like, 'Where has this been my whole life?
~ Scott Thompson
Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.
~ Stephen King
I feel like a young adult. In high school I never felt like my professional life and my personal life were at odds, because Rookie felt like the bridge.
~ Tavi Gevinson
I'm 26 years old, and I've spent my whole life waiting for something else to start. Now I realize that this is all there is, and I'm going to try to live my life like that.
~ Zach Braff
When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board.
~ William Boyd
Let the new faces play what tricks they will In the old rooms; night can outbalance day, Our shadows rove the garden gravel still, The living seem more shadowy than they.
~ William Butler Yeats
Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span; Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man; Delight becomes death-longing if all longing else be vain.
~ William Butler Yeats
The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.
~ William Hazlitt
When I was a younger man and had a life, I owned an El Camino pickup in the '70s. It was a real sort of Southern deal. I had Astroturf in the back.
~ William J. Clinton
The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness.
~ William McFee
Kids are always the only future the human race has.
~ William Saroyan
The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.
~ William Shakespeare
I got married at a very young age, and of course, for all the wrong reasons, and ended up divorced and lost everything. It was a very difficult time in my life.
~ Willie Aames