Quotes About Youth

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

Getting older is tough. I remember the last time I felt an erection. It was at the movies. The only trouble is, it belonged to the guy sitting next to me.

I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.

Deep inside, we're still the boys of autumn, that magic time of the year that once swept us onto America's fields.

The kids now are more productive than we ever were; they're a lot more prolific and productive in the sense that they have to have music out all the time.

When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that's what I told people I was going to be. The mayor of the city of Detroit.

Nothing is more dangerous for society's future than having its young people grow old before their time.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.

It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.

Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time.

Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.

I wanted to be a forensic scientist when I was younger. For a long time, I was studying because I wanted to do that sort of stuff.

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.

What's society going to be like when the kids today are phenomenally good at text messaging and spend a huge amount of on-screen time, but have never gone bowling together?

I hope that all of us who were fortunate enough to have benefited will put our time, our resources and our efforts into making sure that kids, particularly kids without means, have a way to achieve.