Quotes About Youth

No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time.

I think we are in a time where the youth play such a huge role. It's up to us to go the extra mile to vote and raise our voices.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

While I was travelling and I kind of had the classic realisation - that I guess most teenagers have at some point - that time's gonna run out and that's not in my power to change that.

By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.

It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect.

I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time.

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

Don't ever lose that innocent laughter, don't let time take that away

They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.

We are Scotland's independence generation. And our time is now

Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time.

In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Younger men are more supportive and a lot less demanding, and they also have more time for their relationships.

I think it's too bad when teenagers become conformist in terms of fashion,because it's the ideal time to go off into your own crazy thing without looking completely idiotic.

Inside the time bubble we do not age. We age only when we are outside of it.

I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.