Youth Quotes

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.

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.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

I love talking to the youth and helping them as much as I can or encouraging them, if I can help them at all.

The youth are very important to me, they're the next generation, but I want to instill in kids, even in playing, that it's never too late and there's no right or wrong way to do anything.

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

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

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.

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

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.

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.

To me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it's important to the gay youth - who are now setting the agenda - then its important to me.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

If youth knew; if age could.

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

The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract.

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.

Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth.

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.

People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

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

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.

I'm currently working on a Mind Siege for youth.

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

I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.

The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.

To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.

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.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

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

My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.

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

When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories.

The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry.

Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.

In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

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

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Youth has no age.

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

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.

Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.

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

Youth is wasted on the young.

Age considers; youth ventures.

To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.