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Quotes About Youth

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.
~ Mark Twain
Kids are super-independent. This is the time when you don't need your parents for a story anymore. You have a great degree of agency and independence.
~ Mo Willems
Make in India' is a LION's step! This initiative on one hand, will increase manufacturing growth, and at the same time, will directly benefit the youth of the nation in the form of employment.
~ Narendra Modi
Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.
~ Alan Ladd
I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.
~ Amanda Holden
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
~ Margaret Atwood
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25
~ Bobby Darin
There was a time when all I cared about was the next game, the next party, the next tee time.
~ Brett Favre
One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
~ Brit Marling
I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd try out theater, and that was the last time I did sports.
~ Casey Affleck
When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.
~ Catherine Deneuve
I stayed a kid for a pretty long time, and the logistics of being in a band, I did not take seriously at all.
~ David Pajo
I used to go to the library all the time when I was kid. As a teenager, I got a book on how to write jokes at the library, and that, in turn, launched my comedy career.
~ Drew Carey
Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
~ Lionel Trilling
When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.
~ Mark Twain
By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse résumé to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready-for nothing in particular.
~ Peter Thiel
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
~ Plato
I saw a lot when I was young. The first time I got arrested I was twelve years old.
~ Rakim
When I was very young I was very shy but at the same time I was very open cause I was very curious so I wanted to try many things.
~ Sylvie Guillem
I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.
~ Ursula Andress
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust.
~ Walter Raleigh