Youth Quotes · Page 174

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youths sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

— Omar Khayyam

The foundation of youth [for me]...lots of water, lots of laughter, lots of sex.

— Cameron Diaz

Yeah, I probably got in too much trouble as a youth to be a politician.

— Michael Kelly

A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.

— Nellie L. McClung

I enjoy listening to the albums of my youth as much as ever.

— Rivers Cuomo

“If you aren't living on the edge you're taking up too much room. Anon.”

— Pamela Eglinski

“But there was little heart to our lust, only the confusion of not knowing how long we'd have in our bodies.”

— Joseph Bathanti

And that's why ah nuff little youth have up some fat 'matic. With the extra magazine inna dem back pocket and ah…

— Damian Marley

I feel like a young adult. In high school I never felt like my professional life and my personal life were at…

— Tavi Gevinson

When you're young, there are always going to be one or two people who take a shine to you or get you…

— Douglas Henshall

New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was…

— Malcolm X

Ponce de Leon, who said when he discovered the Fountain of Youth, Where the hell are the paper cups? Never got a…

— Red Buttons

The USA have recently done well in the Olympics and the Youth World Cup. So I think there will be some good…

— Richard Gough

It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back…

— Miles Franklin

By the margin of fair Zurich's waters Dwelt a youth, whose fond heart, night and day, For the fairest of fair Zurich's…

— Charles Dance

“Brains with insufficient life experience have not had the chance to model the world into a few heuristics, and must instead try…

— Morris B. Hoffman

I love the complication of the kids in the characters' lives. I love that these two people are very capable in all…

— Keri Russell

I have been especially fortunate for about 50 years in having two memory banks available-whenever I can't remember something I ask my…

— Linus Pauling

Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and…

— James Lee Burke

As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take…

— Jenny Downham

“As though on a seedling whose blossoms ripen at different times, I had seen in old ladies, on that beach at Balbec,…

— Marcel Proust

Movies make teenagers have quippy answers for every question. Nothing seems to faze them, and they're like, 'Oh, whatever.' You're not like…

— Bel Powley

When a new post-war generation has grown to puberty and to youth and to manhood and womanhood, it should read, and it…

— Edna Ferber

As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.

— Anthony Minghella

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

— Felix de Weldon

The road which can be quite an allure when you are young.

— Chris Hoy

I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.

— Leon Panetta

There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

— Charles Finch

At the Barcelona youth academy, I lived right next to Camp Nou, but I spent my days watching movies.

— Mauro Icardi

Coming through the youth ranks at Fulham is a great honour to me.

— Ryan Sessegnon

Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.”

— Roman Payne

Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Teach the young people how to think, not what to think.”

— Sidney Sugarman

We're extremely young and have the potential to be anything that we want to be.

— Priyanka Chopra

Young people need a boosting up really, a bit more encouraging and less looking down on them.

— Ruth Jones

The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.

— Ethan Zuckerman

Scared of the truth Scared of the proof Scared of the minds Enlightening the youth

— Deri Isaac