Youth Quotes · Page 197

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

— Jack Benny

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

— W. Somerset Maugham

So Im pretty sure Im doing this teenager thing completely wrong.

— Anonymous

We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war.

— Smedley Butler

Young people, all too often, find their interests overlooked and their voices ignored.

— Mo Ibrahim

Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“You young people learned spelling by the ‘Close Enough’ method.”

— Garrison Keillor

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down

— Malcolm Cowley

All I want to tell young people is that you're not going to be anything in life unless you learn to commit…

— Louis Zamperini

If anything, there's more at stake when you're older, and more responsibility and more legitimate things to worry about.

— Rob Corddry

Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it.…

— Ned Vizzini

The mind doesn't know anything about age, your subconscious mind knows nothing about time or space. And so, I am hanging around…

— Bob Proctor

You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

I've gone through my adolescence on TV so it's pretty cringey when I look back on some pictures and scenes, but that's…

— Kelvin Fletcher

I grew up in an area of a lot of growth, in Orange County, California, and spent most of my youth on…

— Aaron Peirsol

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that…

— Fran Lebowitz

I can truly say, after an experience of seventy years, that all the cares and anxieties, the trials and disappointments of my…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

After 'Arrested Development,' I didn't know for sure if I wanted to be an actor. I was hitting this wall, where I…

— Alia Shawkat

“Do not think the youth has no force, because he cannot speak to you and me. Hark! in the next room his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Since the dawn of education, the student considered as normal has been the student who puts up the least resistance to teaching,…

— Daniel Pennac

I've often been told that I'm a 30-year-old trapped in a teenager's body. I don't know how I feel about that, but…

— Angourie Rice

I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes…

— James Thurber

Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age…

— Samuel Johnson

I find it strange that our children, teenagers are kept captive listening in classrooms. Earlier education was for career and livelihood. Now,…

— Sonam Wangchuk

Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them.

— Margaret Thatcher

I paid absolutely no attention to politics as a teenager.

— Michelle Lujan Grisham

You just grow up and learn to think instead of just feel.

— Anne-Marie Duff

The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.

— Amy Lowell

“The curse of having young people about the house was that they were always so redolent of possibility.”

— Anna Quindlen

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

— Lionel Trilling

Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigeria's growth and development.

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I think that until we're 21, human beings don't get to know themselves very much.

— Lauren Jauregui

I'm honored to be in a position to have young girls or performers look up to me.

— Lea Michele

“Embrace old age and enjoy it. Not everyone gets there.”

— Patricia Smith

“If you BABYSIT the youths, you will get BABIES. If you LEAD the youths, you will have LEADERS!”

— Cecilia Chan

Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

— Carey Williams

Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

— George Peele

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

— Chuck Yeager

Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.

— Henry Rollins