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Quotes About Youth

People who plan their life when they're 18 years old and say, "This is my life plan," would generally be surprised and maybe disappointed.
~ George W. Bush
I would not call it a difficult life, really. I just had a lot of challenges at a very young age.
~ Ger Duany
Everything's a 360 and that's what's so funny about life now, and they're right at that age and I have teenagers now, and I'm like 'Wow I remember when I did that.' Aint nothing new.
~ Ginuwine
You can determine the kind of life you will have in your 30s and 40s by what you do in your teens.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
If my life had gone in a different direction - some of the choices you makes when you're in your teens and your early 20s, I fortunately feel that I haven't been marked by those things.
~ Gretchen Mol
Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier, ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.
~ Hal Boyle
At 14, I was playing in clubs until 3 A.M. My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans and my mother was a judge, so I saw hookers and drugs but I never wanted that life.
~ Harry Connick, Jr.
Sweet May lies fresh before us, To life the young flowers leap, And through the Heaven's blue o'er us The rosy cloudlets sweep.
~ Heinrich Heine
I think the pressure to be perfect generally in life has amped up massively in the last twenty years: especially for young people with the advent of social media.
~ Helen Fielding
So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.
~ Henry Rollins
Music keeps you young. Having music in your life keeps you open to things.
~ Henry Rollins
Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.
~ Horace Mann
Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.
~ Isabel Allende
He was the tallest, thinnest, weariest boy I had ever seen in my life. He was brilliant. He had gorgeous brown eyes, and he had only two suits. He was completely unhappy, and I didn't know why.
~ J. D. Salinger
You're young and you have all your life ahead of you.
~ J. Lynn
Life under the Soviet system was often funny, absurd really, especially for children.
~ Jaak Kilmi
Every year is vital in the life of a child.
~ Jack McConnell
Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible from ever coming true?
~ James Branch Cabell
Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.
~ James Lecesne
The hardest part about being a kid is knowing you have got your whole life ahead of you.
~ Jane Wagner
I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.
~ Janet Jackson
I got up to all sorts of things when I was a kid, but I've managed to take the excessive alcohol and fast vehicle combination out of my life now.
~ Jason Flemyng
I had always been singing, all of my life, but it wasn't until I got out of high school and was on my own that I didn't have any accompaniment.
~ Jason Mraz