Youth Quotations | Page 6

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.

We want to continue to keep our youth busy so they have more activities than just hanging around the streets and getting in trouble.

What I'm trying to be is a missing link in the music industry today, ... There's not a lot of positive messages in music today. You hear a lot about shaking your booty and guns. You don't hear a lot of Stevie Wonder. I'm motivated to make a difference in the world and encourage youth to be who they are.

We'll have one two weeks in August. We hope to book a youth hockey tournament here.

We'll have one youth winner, one adult winner and an overall winner for both divisions.

I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I've never felt that.

Homosexuals cannot reproduce-so they must recruit ... and to freshen their ranks they must recruit the youth of America.

We live in a society that worships youth. On television, in magazines, in advertisements and on billboards, what sells and what is sold to us is youth.

Oh, the soul keeps its youth!

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.

I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it.

youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

I did experiment with marijuana when I was a youth.

The contrast with experience and youth compared to the callow charms of David Cameron will serve us well.

When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.

If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.

The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

I feel very lucky to be making good work still. The confidence of youth, or that sort of competitiveness you get when you're 22 or 23, the impatience - that's probably been tempered. Hopefully I'm slightly better company.

We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.

Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.

I love movies to death. I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.

I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.

The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.

I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience

Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.

Youth condemns; maturity condones

It's hard enough to go through puberty. Everyone's embarassed about their youth, but if just happens that the '80s were particularly disgusting. Flock of Seagulls is not cool.

How the false truths of the years of youth have passed!Have passed at full speed like trains which never stoppedThere where I stood and waited, hardly aware,How little I knew, or which of them was the oneTo mount and ride to hope or where true hope arrives.

The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.

I had been a Girl Scout from the time I was 8 to the time I was 18 years old. I had belonged to my church organization and youth groups. But, you never really found a way that you could make a change.

Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth.

I believe that those who knew me [in my youth] took me for an eccentric.

All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.

Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.

Youth yearns to youth, full blood loves full blood only.

There are a lot of players in the youth or alternative marketing space. It's a tough jungle out there. Plenty of companies will give it the old college try and just end up as part of the noise.

The real notion is that of the fusion in real life between this vanguard layer of the working class, the real leaders of real struggles of workers at factory and neighborhood levels, of woman's struggles, of youth struggles, of national minority struggles, and the political vanguard organization.

We're trying to incorporate all the areas of the game. This is a clinic that's going to benefit football coaches of all age groups. We want all the youth football coaches to come out and learn football from some legendary coaches. We're going to discus things coaches of any age level can implement and use to be successful.

We're trying to teach Kentucky youth that being an on-mission Christian is a lifestyle, not a location. So if they're venturing out of the state of Kentucky in such a great time of need from the Gulf Coast, I think that is just awesome.

We overscheduled ourselves, given the youth of our team. I've been proud of our women. They've responded well to adversity. I think we're going in the right direction.

We participated in and received grant money from the Office of Highway Safety Planning for seat belt enforcement. We received a grant for $2,000 to purchase equipment here. We also applied for an OHSP grant for youth alcohol enforcement. We're be participating in the program sometime in 2006.

We arranged a meeting in Los Angeles with big name stars, but I had to drop the idea. I wanted to film in the local Soweto dialect that only Soweto youth can speak and believed that shooting in any other language would dilute the impact of the film.

We really do need youth coming through, we need their vibrancy,

There have been too many books in which some young man is looking forward, backward or sideways in anger. Or in which some Southern youth is being chased through the magnolia bushes by his aunt. She catches him on page 28 with horrid results.

There comes a point in time when youth can't be used as an excuse for why we can't do something or get a win,

We're trying for 4,000, trying to break our own record. We have done all the marketing. We've hit all the schools, all the youth teams and hit every corporate sponsor we have. We've really worked hard to try and get 4,000 people there.

We're trying to bring in young players, not older players. We're on a youth movement.

Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

At 14 you are still in most respects a dependent youth, in some respects a child. At 24 you are an adult. In between, extraordinary turbulences take place.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.

If you're pursuing something that you love and you're learning something new, every day, that's the key to youth [staying young].

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem

Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.

The seeds of a happy marriage are sown in youth. Happiness does not begin at the altar; it begins during the period of youth and courtship.

Only youth has a taste of immortality.

Too many youth groups are fighting to keep their doors open at a time when their services are needed more than ever. These grants are meant to help the healers and enable more children to stay engaged in activities - especially during the summer - that keep them learning and playing, which is the best medicine for recovery from this disaster.

Too many youth have been injured in incidents with these techniques. While these holds may be appropriate for an adult population, experience has shown us that it is too easy to injure a young person when applying these holds. Physical restraint should be applied only to prevent a youth from hurting himself or others.

the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

We want everybody to come. It's a wonderful place to bring your family or your youth group. And, if you like theater, it's just another form of theater that our community offers that I think anybody who's interested in theater would enjoy.

We want our youth to be able to say: I come from a people who were trading just as the British did.

We're looking for people who have the inclination and the time to learn about horticulture from experts, then go out into the community to seek the resources they need to teach gardening and landscaping to school kids, youth organizations, civic groups, city beautification efforts, or anybody that calls into our office wanting gardening or landscaping advice.

But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth

Women's snowboarding has progressed a lot. The younger riders are really pushing the limits of technical tricks.

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you are going to pretend it's youth, you are going to miss it. You are going to miss the surprises, the possibilities, and the evolution that we are just beginning to know about because there are no role models, no guideposts, and no signs.

The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.

There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.

With the Web site, we wanted to make registration for programs easier. Each month more and more people are using the web site to register for youth events.

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible.

The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.

We're seeing participation from Europe in the top level of youth competition. The world-wide aspect of the game has permeated these countries.

Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.

If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey... then I should be praised for it, and it's more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.

We want to treat independent living youth who are in foster care the same as any other child in the world. Just because they're in foster care doesn't mean they shouldn't be able to drive.

Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

We also target youth in schools as a preventive method. We talk to them about safe and unsafe behaviors. We encourage them to speak to their friends who may be on runaway status about practicing safe behaviors and finding a safe place so they won't be victimized on the street.

We also will continue to partner with the Pistons to do a great deal of work in the community. Rock Financial has given away nearly 20,000 tickets to area youth organizations in the past two years and we'll do that again this year. Many of the young people that receive tickets might not otherwise have an opportunity to attend a professional basketball game.

Whether or not you are a team that has a blend of experience and youth or you have a young team, or whatever -- you have to compete to win every year. That is just the climate of the NFL these days.

Whether this confrontation was in any way related to youth gangs is something that is still under investigation.

What the young one begs for, the grown-up throws away

Yeah, I probably got in too much trouble as a youth to be a politician.

... When we get youth involved I would hope we have an impact on our school-age people. Whether we're in the schools or outside of (them), as long they (know) the risks of risky drinking I think our goals are being met.