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Quotes About Youth

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
~ Joseph Addison
Ask the young. They know everything.
~ Joseph Joubert
The '60s were an amazing time.
~ Peter Max
I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.
~ Vivienne Westwood
Kids play make-believe all the time, so they tend to be better at using their imaginations than adults.
~ Adam Rubin
When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.
~ Agnetha Faltskog
I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.
~ Amy Poehler
It is time for a new compact among the civilized peoples of this world to eradicate war at its most fundamental source: the corruption of young minds by violent ideology.
~ Barack Obama
And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
~ Barbara Mandrell
I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.
~ Billy Eckstine
I don't remember a time when I wasn't waiting for a scab either to grow or to fall off my knee.
~ Carol Burnett
I remember going for the first time to a place called The Roxy in New York because you can see people breakdancing there. That's the only reason I went! It's amazing, kids are still doing that.
~ Chris Frantz
By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.
~ Christopher Nolan
The '90s were indeed a great time to be alive. There was a sense of optimism that I never felt before that decade and I haven't felt since.
~ Corey Taylor
For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.
~ Craig McCracken
Oh why was I born for this time? Before one is thirty to know more dead than living people.
~ Cynthia Asquith
There was a time in America not long ago when rock 'n' roll was called race music, and white kids who wanted to go see Chuck Berry were completely forbidden.
~ David Bowie
I just don't have time to get old!
~ Dolly Parton
I started surfing at the age of 10, and then turned professional at the age of 16, which was right around the same time I took up the guitar. So, the surfing came first.
~ Donavon Frankenreiter
I used to sing when I was younger. I left it alone for a long time, 'cause I was like, I don't even know if I know how to sing for real.
~ Dreezy
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo
~ James Joyce
Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them.
~ Sharon Horgan
I'm convinced, that when you are a footballer you are a symbol. You have to be a superman in some ways, to send messages to people all the time, to the youth all the time.
~ Emmanuel Petit
I was born at the right time. I was a freak - the only young player when darts took off in the 1970s.
~ Eric Bristow