Youth Quotes · Page 169

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

— Anonymous

If you want to know what you were conditioned to believe as a child, look at how you treat yourself now.

— Cheri Huber

Aging is a chance to make what was good, great, and what was never so good, better...

— Amy Bloom

If you don't do anything stupid when you're young, you won't remember something funny when you're old...

— Anonymous

“The tragedy of being old is you can no longer apply whats taken you so long to learn (Kissing The Beehive)”

— Jonathan Lethem

Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth.

— Samuel Johnson

I want to show the young generation that success is not something you search for externally: it is from within.

— Skepta

God is forever using especially young people, not oldies like us, God likes using young people.

— Desmond Tutu

I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has…

— Aeschylus

Old age tells us that we ourselves have failed often, have never really done anything completely right, have never truly been perfect…

— Joan D. Chittister

Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead…

— Adora Svitak

“His adolescents are displaced aristocrats who have lost their kingdom and wealth, which was childhood. [On J.D. Salinger]”

— Heather O'Neill

I've become a functioning cog in the machine called The Roots, but in my youth I was comin' from a more braggadocious,…

— Black Thought

I played a lot of games at a young age and I feel like I'm an older player in the side now.…

— Ross Barkley

I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and…

— Anonymous

With young people everything is much more on the surface - all the emotions; when you get older you know how to…

— Rineke Dijkstra

We also know that the various faith-based institutions provide about 50 per cent of the health and education services in the poor…

— Thoraya Obaid

In addition to exploring imaginative worlds, I believe that young people should have access to reading material that validates their life, that…

— Theresa Breslin

“I think it’s pretty common for teenagers to fantasize about dying young. We knew that time would force us into sacrifices—we wanted…

— Julie Buntin

I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away. I wasn't going to…

— Heath Ledger

For many people, the age of 20 is when they first reach adulthood, and it's a time full of ideals and dreams.…

— Lee Min-ho

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them,…

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

I thought my parents were always having card parties - and they were - but they were actually also having meetings to…

— Boots Riley

The Youth Employment Fund is helping Ontario's young people build valuable skills and access job opportunities that will lay the groundwork for…

— Brad Duguid

“Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.”

— Idries Shah

“Optimism is the young boy who notices that a girl notices that he notices her.”

— R N Prasher

“Youth and skill are no match for experience and treachery.”

— Charles Benedict

“Old ones should respect the energy of youths and youths should respect the experience of old ones.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Whatever you can think of, do it now. Because you'll never be this young again.”

— Robyn Roze

The modest youth somehow knows just what to do for the cameras.

— Mason Cooley

“Dream like a child. Reason like an elder. Play like a youth. Work like an adult.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Imagination is something that sits up with Dad and Mom the first time their teenager stays out late.

— Anonymous

“You flatter yourself...you're too young for me to take you seriously.”

— Sandra Kitt

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

— John Denham

About the only thing that comes without effort is old age..

— Anonymous

All men leave the harbour of youth, but only few reach the very far island of wisdom!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Think, speak, and act. With age comes self-reproach: I might have done more. Therefore now do!”

— Théophile Thoré

I think it's just really important for youth today to have a passion and pursue something seriously.

— Kerri Strug