Youth Quotes · Page 113

Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.

— Jonathan Swift

Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.

— Allison Joseph

Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

— Talib Kweli

In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.

— William Allen White

In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.

— Michel de Montaigne

Old enough to see that it's wrong, young enough to do it anyway!

— Anonymous

Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.

— Nancy Mitford

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the…

— Paul Cezanne

It is intensely frustrating. The longer you live, the more interesting life gets, and yet many of the parts involve carrying trays…

— Juliet Stevenson

The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles…

— Benjamin Rush

“[Self] Perception is directly proportional to performance. Change a youth's perception, and you change their performance, their future... and their life.”

— Justin Young

There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

“The mind of youth eagerly catches at promised pleasure: pure and innocent by nature, it thinks not of the dangers lurking beneath…

— Susanna Rowson

You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them.

— Claire Tomalin

For a long time our son was a little boy with autism, which was a certain kind of challenge. Now that he's…

— Anonymous

When you see the way things deteriorate before your very eyes. Everything running down hill. It's kind of silly to even think…

— Sam Shepard

You're young and you're always in pursuit your young manhood. You're trying to figure out - what does that mean? What does…

— Bruce Springsteen

The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better…

— John Dewey

When you're sixteen and struggling to forge an identity out of a morass of hormones and daydreams, remarks like that cut a…

— Kate Christensen

It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to…

— Henry David Thoreau

I've picked up quite a few yellow cards in the last few years - a few reds, too. That was the case…

— Granit Xhaka

“I see, I see! From association Messala, in boyhood, was almost a Jew; had he remained here, he might have become a…

— Lew Wallace

An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

'James and the Giant Peach' magnificently starts out Dahl's career as a blithe and droll Bad Uncle corrupter and affirmer of youth.…

— Paul Di Filippo

The Jewish people, ever since David slew Goliath, have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership.

— John F. Kennedy

I don't think you understand what a job really is when you're a teenager.

— Tiffani Thiessen

The elderly in Britain aren't really given enough respect.

— June Brown

If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

“Keep the dreams of your youth very close to your heart.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

You're writing about young, vibrant people; there are wins and losses. In other words, it's great drama.

— Frank Deford

I may age, but, my heart and mind will forever be set as a kid.

— Anonymous

The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

I spent most of my youth in Manchester, in clubs and football grounds and the Manchester Apollo.

— John Simm

“I'm glad that I am not young in so thoroughly finished a world.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— William Carlos Williams

I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth.

— Ricky Skaggs

Teenagers aren't loyal to much of anything - especially Internet stuff.

— John Battelle

'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show.

— Jesse Ventura

What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution.

— Jessica Zafra

“I am too young to be called wise and I am too old to be called young.”

— Santosh Kalwar