Best 1761 quotes in «youth quotes» category

To me, the counterculture was always what I grew up with the hippies in the late '60s. But, however you define it, it's really the excesses of youth and it's something that everyone goes through to some extent. Or if they don't, they should do.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

Too young for woe, though not for tears.

To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth

To the young I should offer two maxims: Don't accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little good than much harm. I should not offer anything more specific; every young person should decide on his or her own credo.

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.

Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?

Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.

Vampires are so sexy and powerful - they're so otherworldly; they have eternal life and youth.

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.

We are slowly isolating the genes involved with the aging process. We do not have the fountain of youth, but I think, in the coming decades, we will unravel the aging process at the genetic level.

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

Wasting one's youth is better than doing nothing at all with it.

We all saw it coming. Arsenal's youth policy has always been very good.

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.

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

We can not run away from our youth. We have to put them in the lead

We begin to die from the moment we are born, for birth is the cause of death. The nature of decay is inherent in youth, the nature of sickness is inherent in health, in the midst of life we are verily in death.

We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them.

We have a professional relationship [with Chancellor Angela Merkel].2016 is the year of the German-Russian youth exchange, so the relations are moving on.

We have thought that because children are young they are silly. We have forgotten the blind stirrings, the reaching outward of our own youth.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

We must be young to do great things.

We have very close humanitarian contacts [with China], wide-ranging youth exchanges, educational and regional contacts, and all of them continue to develop.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

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.

We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on.

What an exciting age it is we live in With all this talk about the hope of youth And nothing made of youth.

We need to teach our youth American values, kindness, honesty,respect.

What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.

What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

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

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.

When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle.

What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.

Whenever I am with energetic young people, I feel like a recharged battery.

What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.

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.

When I had the youth I had no money, now I have the money I have no time, and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life.

When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth.

When I interviewed the evangelical Christian youth group who were protesting the Village Voice, I wanted them to feel they could freely tell me things like, "Did you know that 90 percent of prostitutes don't want to be doing it?" Is that unfair? That's sort of an invisible privilege for me.

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

When it comes to radical youth culture nothing sells better than neatly packaged and politically correct rage against the world where everything is politically correct and neatly packaged for sale.

When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.