Quotes About Youth

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Never say [to younger people] "that was before your time," because the last full moon was before their time!

Time is never time at all. You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth. And our lives are forever changed. We will never be the same. The more you change, the less you feel.

When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.

When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.

When I was little, I spent a lot of time by myself. When other kids were in school, I was skiing and thinking about things. I was alone on the mountain.

My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player.

The first time that I came to Cannes, I think it was in 1953, I was 18 and unknown.

And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.

I was very tiny...I spent most of my time stuffed into lockers. Thank god for cell phones, or I'd still be there.

I was in the Chilli Peppers at the time and I asked myself, would I be able to wear a sock on my genitals at the age of forty and they proved me wrong because I guess they're still doing it.

There are nights when I think that Sal Paradise was right / Boys and Girls in America / Have such a sad time together.

The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.

I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.

I'm sure when I have a nostalgic, teary moment in 10 years time, I'll try to put the glasses when I was 10 on and cry to myself in front of the mirror

My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.

I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.

Young girls come up to me all the time to ask for advice. They see me as a survivor.

For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.

I think you always have, you know, new players. Every year you see new faces, juniors coming into the seniors. I was one of them at the time long time ago now.

Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapped power.

The protected place in space and time that we once called childhood has grown shorter.

So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really what I wanted to do. And I sang from the time I was very young.

The whole bullying issue has really struck a nerve with me. It affects so many different types of people at a vital time in their lives.