Youth Quotes · Page 140

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

— A.C. Grayling

“It's bad to grow old before your time. It's worse to not grow at all within your mind,”

— Stabley Victor Paskavich

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“it is the violent poetry of the times, writen in the blood of the youth.”

— Linda Mendoza

“The young must learn to appreciate the wisdom of elderly people and learn from their life experiences.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I am young, it is true; but in noble souls valor does not wait for years.

— Pierre Corneille

I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out.

— Warren Beatty

If you really want to know what motivated me as a young man, it was a fear of death.

— Marco Pierre White

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I grew up in south London and spent most of my adolescence in the snooker halls of the area, turning professional at 17.

— Jimmy White

I know the youth of India. They are not merely asking for things. The youth wants to stand of their own feet…

— Narendra Modi

I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad…

— Stephen Spender

Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.

— P. C. Cast

As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him…

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

I spent most of my time with adults because although my parents were older when they had me, they're really like teenagers.…

— Emily Ratajkowski

After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found…

— Charlotte Bronte

Today there remain but a few small areas on the world's map unmarked by explorers' trails. Human courage and endurance have conquered…

— Roy Chapman Andrews

“devouring their dark lips, dark with wine and fleeting love, an ancient memory love had promised but finally never gave, until there…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

“Early youth is a baffling time. The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting…

— Bruce Catton

That was a weird thought. My straight-up mother being bothered by faeries? Delia was even weirder. I could picture the scene. Faerie:…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Israel's economic and cultural progress is due to three things: the pioneering spirit that inspires the best of our immigrant and Israeli…

— David Ben-Gurion

Youth of the Church, the world is in need of your help. There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to…

— Thomas S. Monson

To me, the counterculture was always what I grew up with the hippies in the late '60s. But, however you define it,…

— Derek Ridgers

“As we mature we progressively narrow the scope and variety of our lives. Of all the interests we might pursue, we settle…

— Karl Albrecht

I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.

— Camille Paglia

I used to make fun of young people when I was 17 - the angst, the insecurities, all those tattoos.

— Craig Kilborn

When you're young, you think you can do anything, and we thought.

— Warren MacKenzie

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse; always harder.

— Lord Chesterfield

Youth is so cynical. There's never anything to believe in as a teen.

— Matt Tong

Well, when I was a teenager I was terribly bookish. I was very studious.

— Robert Sapolsky

I'm definitely passionate about passing on the knowledge I have to anyone, especially the youth.

— Geno Smith

Something has to change in the world. Without change, young people will have no future.

— Donatella Versace

I kept getting offered all this young adult stuff. I don't want to keep telling teen coming-of-age stories!

— Dee Rees

“By the time these kids are young adults, they're going to have to go to Walmart to buy a personality.”

— Phil Robertson

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

— Clint Eastwood

Obviously, I talk to young players and help them a little bit with my experience.

— Andre Schurrle

“Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember.

— Alan Arkin

We want to reach out to the young people. We want the hearts of the young people to turn to God.

— Bo Sanchez

Impressing a bunch of snooty teenagers is a pretty lame life goal to have.

— Vera Brosgol