Best 1761 quotes in «youth quotes» category

I sighed; as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.

It actually took me 20 years to want to write about my youth. I was definitely always a little intimidated about writing about that part of my life.

It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away.

It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures.

I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works.

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.

Italy is not widely thought of as a pioneer of youth culture in the way, say, the UK is.

I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'

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

it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.

It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.

It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future

It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.

It is not age which killed Boston, for no cities die of age; it is the youth of other cities.

It's a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond requires a degree of youthful intrigue. Love loves its youth.

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.

It's important to me that youth everywhere, no matter their race, religion, or gender, know that anything is possible with perseverance.

It's my job to spread deviance to the American youth.

I usually play disenfranchised youth

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.

It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.

I've never had any interest in retelling stories from my youth.

I've been playing youth basketball ever since I was in sixth grade; I've been traveling ever since I was in sixth grade, so I'm used to it.

i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself

I want to see Colombian youth become the best-educated in Latin America by 2025.

I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!

I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.

I won't hold my opponent's youth and inexperience against him.

I won the youth vote in Massachusetts and in California. I did very well with it in Ohio.

I would very much like to make Westerns. I love Westerns. I've worked on many Westerns in my youth, in Spain and here, and I love working on them.

I was too young to take it all in. I was too young to even realize I was young. I was just living my life.

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

Just in general, when we look at our school system, there is so much overlap with our criminal justice system in terms of our low-income youth.

I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out: 'Quick! Quick! Quick!' And the more she destroys, the more she is renewed.

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

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.

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

Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.

I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.

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

Laughter is taken as a sign of strength, freedom, health, beauty, youth, and happiness.

Let your youth have free reign, it won't come again, so be bold and no repenting.

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless

Less and less is the question being asked as to whether developments are taking place in a democratic and free way. Europe is in a phase in which this output is no longer sufficiently visible or tangible. Youth unemployment is still far too high, we still haven't solved our currency problem and living conditions in Europe are drifting apart. That is one reason why critics say that our Europe is based on yesteryear's model.