Quotes About Youth

I feel like my sixteenth birthday and the time I graduated from high school, and the first time I flew solo all wrapped up in one.

Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.

I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.

I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone.

And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.

The first time I smoked was at home with my mother and stepfather; they were like, If you are going to do this, we'd rather you did this with us.

The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.

You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.

These are 8- and 12-year-old kids. It doesn't matter how they got here. It is time to show a little compassion

The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, youre going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think its the main stuff.

We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.

Time for the FUTURE!! We will see young scientists in the future writing D++ (DNA Code).

They tried to make me go to Catholic school, too. I lasted a very short time. When the penguin came after me with a ruler, I was out of there.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

Once upon a time I owned a watermelon.

Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust.

I knew when I was 10 that I wanted to act full-time.

It takes time to get the whole package. Freshmen can't be seniors.

My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.

In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding than baseball.