Youth Quotations

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

I was walking down a street and after his death and saw a billboard on the side of a brick wall for Van's shoes. It was a picture of Hopper's face, and all it said was, 'Hopper Lives.' So I think he's still part of youth culture. There are lessons to be learned from Hopper about being a young person who wants to live the art life in America.

When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.' I wouldn't have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn't a clever man.

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

I survived many a youth hostel bunk room reading Tolstoy by flashlight.

The Beatles' story is all of our stories. It is about how the youth culture emerged, the drug culture emerged, how politics rose to the fore as a universal debate. It's about rebellion, it's about the growth of the British entertainment system, the growth of the rock n' roll entertainment system.

I went to church as a kid, but it was as much a social thing as anything going to the youth group with the other kids and whatnot. It wasn't until I got out of college that I got on my own religious trip and started finding other things out there as well as philosophies. I've kinda been on my own spiritual path since then.

In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player.

There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

We can either allow our youth to shoot baskets or watch them continue to shoot people.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.

These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

My sense of loneliness was not particularly great until I reached sixty. From that time on, I would have given an ex-king's ransom if I had been able, in my youth to seduce a lady into thinking of me as a handyman and provider around the house.

It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.

I remember lying on the floor of the living room with headphones on when I was four or five years old, listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick.

All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training.

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between.

I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.

I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society.

Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.

I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.

What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.

Youth doesn't need friends -- it only needs crowds.

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.

The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.

Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects.

If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

The youth is the hope of our future.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

In army, I went to Kashmir and did well, which was a challenge. In sports, I went to Olympics at a time when no one believed that we can actually win. Coming into politics was also a challenge as I wanted to push the youth to achieve gold in various fields of life.

I also started to eat sensibly. The weight just dropped off.

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

Youth is incredible because you really do feel invincible.

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Music is the biggest tool of revolution - the best way to reach out to the youth and involve them. If you can't contribute to the world with your art, I don't see the meaning of life.

The youth movement is aware that old visions can not take Egypt into the future.

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

Seeing the show is like a visit to the fountain of youth for parents and the children.

I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge' was launched, a regional channel in Punjab started a program based on that. I participated in it and emerged as the winner.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.

You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.

I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'

The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

Because of my intense hopes for the youth of China, I feel very keenly my responsibility for their future success or failure. The fate of China lies in their hands. The responsibility for organizing and training them to become worthy citizens of China, able to undertake the tasks of Resistance and Reconstruction, is mine; I cannot evade it.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert.

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

The National Youth Theatre did one very simple but incredible thing for me: it made me realise I had choices.

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

Taking part in these types of programs is crucial to our youth and crucial to the future of this game.

I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.

I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It was a great way to explore and investigate social sculptures. Having that as my kind of studio, outside of a museum or precious white-cube gallery, that was a kind of education.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

Yeah, I've had an odd youth, But I wouldn't know the difference if I'd lived it any other way. And I wouldn't change any of it because I quite like what I'm doing.

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

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.