Youth Quotes · Page 91

“The morning Mom tells me my skirt is too short, I find the lawn full of dead fledglings.”

— Kyle Labe

Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.

— Herbert Gold

Age had taught him patience. Youth had taught me to get frustrated at the lack of progress.

— Jeaniene Frost

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'd rather see what young people are going through than see things explode.

— Amy Heckerling

The music you love when you're a teenager is always going to be the most important to you.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Mature people transmit to young people a certain wisdom that comes from maturity, but young people are close to a more intuitive…

— Eugene Green

“One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you…

— Gene Brown

Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about…

— Patton Oswalt

I think as a young player, coming through the system like I have, you play for the love of the game, you…

— James Ward-Prowse

And it's as you get older that you realize that the things that make you strange are the things that make you…

— Jessica Brown Findlay

I had my own youth. I had fun playing in the amateurs, going out with my friends on the weekend, drinking a…

— Jaap Stam

Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character…

— Shannon Hale

“Did he really forget what it’s like to be a teenager? We’re hardly a team. It’s more like survival of the fittest.”

— Mary Jennifer Payne

Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be…

— Olympia Dukakis

I always wanted to be grown up. When I was little I couldn’t wait to be a teenager and go to high…

— Elizabeth Scott

“We were born helpless to learn unconditional love and to care for each other, We become children to learn to wonder and…

— Quetzal

“For other forms of relaxation are not so universally suited to all ages, times, and places; but these studies [of literature] sustain…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and…

— Adam Rapp

“It’s odd how one’s memories of youth turn out so bleak. Why does the business of growing up—one’s recollections of growth itself—have…

— Yukio Mishima

“Youth is lies. Youth is evil. Those who incessantly celebrate their teenage years are lying both to themselves and to those around…

— Wataru Watari

“Chaos, I think, is youth. Youth at any age. Because as long as you have chaos, you are free of responsibility. When…

— Jeanne Marie Laskas

What becomes fragile when we age is not our bodies as much as our egos.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Age is such a natural progression you shouldn't fight it.

— Ann-Margret

Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege. A lot of people who are dead wish they were still alive.

— Amy Poehler

You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.

— Will Rogers

Gather, gather your youth: Just like this flower, old age Your beauty will wither.

— Pierre de Ronsard

One advantage of doing Lear at 70 is that you don't have to play an old man.

— Nigel Hawthorne

“In the woods is perpetual youth. In the woods we return to faith and reason.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every major industrial society believes it has a serious youth problem.

— Edgar Friedenberg

The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.

— William Shakespeare

We all saw it coming. Arsenal's youth policy has always been very good.

— Roy Hodgson

“Why is it that twenty-four hours in the company of your family is capable of reducing you to a teenager?”

— Maggie O'Farrell

Music is my soul and I can easily say, it is the secret of my youth.

— Bappi Lahiri

Forgive me if I stare, I knew you were young, but even then I was expecting someone a little more, well, more.

— Christopher Paolini

I wish that more people, especially young people, were taught about self-love at a younger age.

— Jamila Woods

Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.

— Ruben Hinojosa

YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.

— Ambrose Bierce