Best 1761 quotes in «youth quotes» category

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.

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

My young friend supposes his ingenuousness is merely a ruse.

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.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

My reasoning, if one can call it that, was inflamed by the scatter shot passions of youth and a literary diet overly rich in the works of Nietzshe, Kerouac, and John Menlove Edwards.

My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.

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

my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know.

Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.

Nutritional excellence is the only real fountain of youth.

No exchange rate for the confidence of youth.

No one can question the talent of India's youth after the success of the Mars Mission. Everything indigenous!

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.

Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.

now I am capable of youth, but not capable of few years - that is the pitiful thing.

Nixon wasn't really considered the president by the youth of America. He was considered to be a fraud and which he proved himself to be.

No man is too good to be the athletic coach for youth.

Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.

Of course we can talk about the radical potential of youth. But in the U.S. it is still the case that most youth are conservative and not very sympathetic to the working class.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Old age and youth cannot live together.

Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.

Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say, Birds chuse their mates and couple too this day: But by their flight I never can devine When I shall couple with my valentine.

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

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

Our youth are not failing the system; the system is failing our youth. Ironically, the very youth who are being treated the worst are the young people who are going to lead us out of this nightmare.

Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I'll trade wisdom for youth any day.

One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth.

One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between being younger or older.

Our culture puts a lot of pressure on the idea that a woman's self-worth is defined by her looks. It's just awful. And they also put a tremendous premier on youth, which is so, so debilitating and upsetting to so many women. I don't know why they're so dopey. Seriously. I don't see any problem with that and if you do, you should celebrate it. Don't chop your face up.

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

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

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

One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.

[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business.

Our demographic dividend is our strength. The youth have what it takes to engage with the latest technology.

Our duty is to understand youth, but more, to help them understand themselves that they may release their varied abilities... We must help them to discover a life work, not work for life.

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.

O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.

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

People don't see hunger in front of them so they are not directly affected. What I am doing is connecting young people to the issue

Our youth [with their overwhelming support of Obama] are voting for a permanent tax on their life

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more to give.

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.