Quotes About Youth

In one's youth, one has tremendous access to one's feelings. And as one gets older, some of those feelings kind of drift away. But so much more happens to you. There's more at stake in life.

I think I always wanted to have adventures in my life. I was always kind of a rambunctious kid.

As a teenager, you have so much energy and hormones and you feel powerless in your life.

I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.

Life is a drink and you get drunk when you're young...

My life's like a big tour. It's cool, I'm still semi-young. I'm not too old yet where it's like, "I hate the road!" As long as I'm not anywhere for too long. I like to keep moving.

I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.

But that's life. That's what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter.

You get to live your life again through the eyes of your children. I conquered a fear the other day by going on a roller coaster, I haven't been on one in 15 years - I felt like I was six years old.

We need to be creative with young people. If they have no opportunities, they will get into drugs and be vulnerable to suicide.

Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who 'pleased God and was loved by him' and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.

I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.

When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.

Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

Life's aspirations come in the guise of children.

I think I lot of young people feel like they have no purpose, so I try to enlighten them with my life and show them you can do whatever you put your mind to.

I think I missed my window." "What window?" "My get-a-life window. I think I was supposed to figure all this stuff out somewhere between twenty-two and twenty-six, and now it's too late.

That's why children look so beautiful because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known frustration.

The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13.

If young people do see me as an example (I'm very flattered if they do!) I hope it is as someone who will go out there and live life to the full.

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

I always think that I'm still this 13-year old boy that doesn't really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I'll really have to do it.