Youth Quotations | Page 2

In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'

In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.

Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and its free to everyone.

Youth is something I never wanna take for granted. I just want to smile and live life.

Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes

I do feel I have a responsibility to the youths. For real.

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

My father is an expatriate American; he fell in love with New Zealand in his youth and never went home.

I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.

People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.

I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.

Public swimming pools, recreation centers, summer reading programs, youth jobs programs - they are all shutting their doors. And they are all facilities and programs relied on most heavily by low-income children.

One of my dreams in life is to do fund-raising for the youth.

Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.

I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

I just love performing so much, and I threw myself into every musical theater production that was going in my home town and at school. And then, I went to the National Youth Music Theatre, which was really a galvanizing experience for me when I was 17.

Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.

I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.

For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's like they almost become irrelevant.

The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.

To burn the ideal of a great love into the soul of youth in letters of fire - that is to give him a real moral strength.

The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

I've been into Sonic Youth since junior high school. I think I kind of have ADD, so it's good music for ADD because it just throws you in different directions all the time. I really like Kim Gordon's voice and Thurston Moore's voice, and I like the guitars going off on tangents.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?

The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.

Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

I am the president of the youth of France.

Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong.

My mum came from nothing and didn't have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

I went to an all-girls boarding school for most of my youth.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

I was actually under a lot of heaviness when I was younger. I thought of myself as an old soul. I was very obsessed with death. Basically, I didn't really have a youth - I sublimated all that into my identity and my music.

The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

Have you seen some of the women - and the men - in Los Angeles? They pay surgeons to make them look completely different in the hope of finding their youth. But youth comes from within. If you have a young attitude, then that can show in your face, the way you walk and move.

Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.

I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.

Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

Youth is so exciting. It'll take over. I don't want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the end.

Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

I've seen pictures of myself with makeup on, and I look like those women who look like they're wearing makeup so they can look young, and I don't think that's good. They have all these products now called - wait, what's it called, it's my favorite - youth suppressant, or age go away; they don't work.

There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do.

The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.

I certainly could've gone off track many, many times in my youth.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.

In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

It's lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It's lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.

Satan knows that youth is the springtime of life when all things are new and young people are most vulnerable.

I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

The media, of course, loves to make claims about the fountain of youth. Don't believe it. No one has it. But we're getting close.

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

We are proud of the work Activision has done to help make this excellent program possible, and it is an honor to witness the Tomorrow's Leader's youth graduate to the next stage of their lives. We have confidence that these youth will positively impact Los Angeles in ways unimagined before this program.

We are pleased to join them in their youth efforts while using our game of football as a positive educational resource for children.

We are looking for volunteers to help in a number of areas, both during the Relay and in the months before the event. This is an excellent opportunity for youth to fulfill a community service project for school and church as well as contributing to the cause of finding a cure for cancer.

We started off great and won some close games. Then, with the youth of our team, the league started figuring us out. I see a lot of growth and a lot of improvement. With additional players this summer, the future is bright for us. We've really learned a lot about ourselves over the course of the season.

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

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.

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

... 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.

We found that if there was more advertising in a market there was more youth drinking.

We grew up together on the youth teams, too, so it's a fun opportunity for us. We're really looking forward to playing with each other again, and the younger guys are close anyway because you have a lot more in common.

We grew up together on the youth teams, too, so it's a fun opportunity for us.

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

We're aware of them through the World Youth Cup. We might not have seen them in the green and gold, but we are very aware of them.

The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth.

Through her offices, she uses it to provide an opportunity to raise awareness on issues affecting youth and affecting women and affecting new Canadians. It's putting a very human and sort of a personal face on the role of Governor General and how it can be used to raise awareness.

We know from strong evidence that we'll see a decrease in the youth smoking rate, a decrease in health-care costs associated with smoking, and revenue we'd like to see go towards prevention and education programs.

When I was a kid, there were no youth sports ? all they had was Little League. Now, everything is much more structured (with travel teams). It has helped us in getting our instruction across to the kids.

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