Quotes About Youth

Mainly, life experiences with my family or travelling as a young kid, I feel like I had a different lifestyle than a lot of people leaving on tour when I was fourteen and stuff, so I pull from that.

But when I found out that Jamey Rodemeyer had made an It Gets Better video only months before taking his own life, I felt indescribable despair.

Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.

Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.

The only reason I got into stand-up was because my brother told me to. I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. I was 17 and my brother went to a comedy club and he said - you can do that.

Make sure that your kids or the kids in your life have an opportunity to share their ideas, and to teach you something about what we know.

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.

Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.

O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?

Hearing the faraway sounds of children at recess makes me understand that I am no longer life's main character.

Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.

When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18.

YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

It is sweet to die young! It is sweet to render to God a life still full of illusions!

I don't want to play in pain. I'm 25, it's my life.

I believed in God my whole life, and then strayed away from it in my teen-age years, until recently.

As young as I look, I think it will still be funny if I played a person who's kind of tortured and hates his life. Kind of like a Larry David-type thing.

Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.

If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false

As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.

You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.