Best 1761 quotes in «youth quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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'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 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 a pity youth is wasted on the young.

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

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 my job to spread deviance to the American youth.

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

I usually play disenfranchised youth

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.

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

Like many, I suspect, I found the difficulty of analytic philosophy unglamorous and therefore less appealing. This is regrettably superficial but superficiality is characteristic of youth. In my late teens I became enamored of Nietzsche, Bataille, and Artaud.

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.

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

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

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

Life must be understood before getting old, most preferably, in youth!

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

Lightly I sped when hope was high And youth beguiled the chase,-- I follow, follow still: But I Shall never see her face.

Man hath a weary pilgrimage, As through the word he wends; On every stage, from youth to age, Still discontent attends.

Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.

Man is doomed either squander his youth, which is the only time he has to store provisions for the coming years and provide for his own well-being, or to spend his youth procuring pleasures in advance for that time of life when he will be too old to enjoy them.