logo

Quotes About Youth

If you're lonely, bored, or unhappy, remember you are mad young. There is so much time to meet new people and go to new places.
~ Ezra Koenig
Time makes you bolder, children get older. I'm getting older, too.
~ Stevie Nicks
The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.
~ Black Elk
The old men ask for more time; the young waste it. And the philosopher simply smiles, knowing there is none there.
~ R. S. Thomas
Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.
~ Judy Blume
So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.
~ John Entwistle
Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, And sweet thyme true, Primrose, first born child of Ver, Merry Spring-time's harbinger.
~ Francis Beaumont
To freeze time, to hold on to youth, this business makes no sense. It's always time that wins in the end.
~ Robert Doisneau
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
~ Lord Chesterfield
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.
~ Christina Rossetti
To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.
~ Samuel Beckett
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Every time I come off-set, I am just like a normal kid again.
~ Rupert Grint
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
~ Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
I put my own d*ck in my mouth. I was 14 and much more flexible at the time. It was soft and required a lot of pulling. I really wanted that case of beer.
~ Chad Kroeger
That's what music should be like all the time. No stress, moving things forward, inspiring the youth, and doing it with style and vigor.
~ Pharrell Williams
I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.
~ Stephen Hawking
We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.
~ Graeme Le Saux
Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
School was great. There were no boys there, which didn't really bother me at the time because I had two brothers, so I was quite pleased not to spend any more time with boys.
~ Jo Brand
If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.
~ Randolph Bourne
The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
~ John Milton
I don't want to tell a 15 or 14 year old what they should be doing. I want them to tell me. And that's what I got when I met Justin Bieber for the first time.
~ Simon Cowell