Quotes About Youth

I was dreaming ... about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.

It is a sad thing to begin life with low conceptions of it. It may not be possible for a young man to measure life; but it is possible to say, I am resolved to put life to its noblest and best use.

I was too young to take it all in. I was too young to even realize I was young. I was just living my life.

Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole life.

I don't really take the college tours and all that. Those are young people and I'm quite sure they're mature enough to understand, but they haven't seen or lived real life yet.

I guess it's the age group of students; You are questioning life. Then there are those who actually see their problems reflected in it.

I'm a pretty young person, but I think you need a little life experience to actually say something.

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.

In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.

Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more.

The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life.

I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. I didn't sleep on people's couches.

For the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life.

The goal in life is to live young, have fun, and arrive at your final destination as late as possible, with a smile on your face.

Joe Henderson, who I maybe, to me, if I had to pick one improviser in my life that I saw live that blew my mind most, especially as a teenager.

As an adolescent, Vonnegut made my life bearable.

One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely ended by the time I was twenty-five.

I have two older brothers and they were a huge part of life; we were very close. We used to run around and get into trouble. That's what I came from - that exploring nature.

Many of the most important and life-changing moments of my life occurred when I was a young man. The lessons I learned then formed my character and shaped my destiny.

I think it's almost better to start [acting] at a later age because you have more stuff to drawm from - more life experience. When you start too young, you grow up on a set.

In all honesty I think that I've had a very normal life, even though I've been making movies since I was 9.

She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.