Youth Quotes · Page 147

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

— Ethan Zuckerman

America has always been a special place for me, since my youth.

— Ryan Babel

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

— Henry Rollins

I am the world's oldest teenager. I've never lost my youthful attitude.

— Rodney Dangerfield

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

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

— Evelyn Waugh

I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.

— James Thurber

Rock isn't a young music anymore. I don't think it's necessarily even a youth-oriented music.

— Tom Petty

I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the…

— Katherine Paterson

From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit…

— William Shakespeare

I admire the strength and courage of all young people faced with difficult situations in life. You are an inspiration to me…

— Fearne Cotton

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people,…

— Kenneth Koch

“in the state capital. But the years had also taken their toll. Some of it was just a function of my getting…

— Barack Obama

India's ambitions as a country and, in turn, the ambitions of our youth and working professionals are soaring. A new wave of…

— Ronnie Screwvala

I think Thurston's and my weird tunings lent Sonic Youth a very different sound from the get-go. In the band's 30 years…

— Lee Ranaldo

I always say that the largest party in every country - the largest opposition group in every country - is the youth…

— Jared Cohen

Being young is an advantage. You've grown up with games as the dominant entertainment. You have a lot of experience of video…

— Kim Swift

My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness…

— Lee Atwater

“There they are, held like flies in the amber of that moment -- click goes the camera and on goes life, the…

— Nancy Mitford

“Parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorb the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others…

— Mitch Albom

The wave of punitiveness that washed over the United States with the rise of the drug war and the get tough movement…

— Michelle Alexander

If a magazine proudly labels itself 'The Economist,' you would expect that publication to understand the economic burdens of today's youth. But…

— Ana Kasparian

I despise the fact that the youth today acts as if being youthful is the answer to everything. It's a very young…

— Sean Garrett

“You know, it's pretty easy reading this book to see why I was angry and confused for all those years. I lived…

— Nikki Sixx

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

— Anonymous

I've had a prolonged adolescence, like a lot of my generation.

— Shawn Colvin

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

— Lionel Trilling

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

— Anna Quindlen

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

— Amy Lowell

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

— Cecilia Chan

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

— Patricia Smith

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

— Lea Michele

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

“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

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

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir