Youth Quotes · Page 209

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.

— Marilyn Manson

It's better to light a candle than to curse the dark In the eyes of the youth, there are question marks

— K'naan

It's not the number of years that makes you old, but the idea that you are getting old.

— Emile Coue

The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.

— Henry James Byron

I've been a member of Greenpeace since I was a teenager.

— Alexander Skarsgard

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

— Anonymous

I feel a lot of folks, like teenagers, can feel like outcasts.

— Dee Rees

Media images are so important to young people feeling positive about themselves.

— Jimmy Smits

I spent my youth playing music, and I worked a lot in New Jersey and New York clubs. At 18, I worked…

— Frank Vincent

I realised as a teenager that I was destined for a creative life and found that fashion design was something I enjoyed…

— Jenny Packham

It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped…

— Mary J. Blige

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and…

— Margaret Fuller

When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow, and now that I'm old the young regard me…

— Fred Hoyle

I was a child in the '60s and a teenager in the '70s, which was the golden age of film as far…

— George Pelecanos

He is in youth swift, pliant and merry, and leapeth and rusheth on all thing that is before him; and is lead…

— Bartholomeus Anglicus

Everybody contributes to reggae differently and I will offer as many positive messages to the youth as I can. I only hope…

— Koffee

When I was a teenager, I didn't get to do a lot of the things that other kids my age were doing…

— Joyce Meyer

“Young girls live in mythology.Their music, their moves, their relationships. Heartbreak makes them feel grown-up. Nothing a young girl wants more than…

— Micah Nathan

Because of my intense hopes for the youth of China, I feel very keenly my responsibility for their future success or failure.…

— Chiang Kai-shek

Our culture is obsessed with youth because we have lost the ancient knowledge that growth never stops. We are not transient, momentary…

— Eben Alexander

How young people are represented betrays a great deal about what is increasingly new about the economic, social, cultural and political constitution…

— Henry Giroux

Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit…

— David Rice

If you find yourself saying things like, "I'm hitting the age where I'll need reading glasses," "I'm too old to try yoga…

— Deepak Chopra

In my barrio, jobs work and money saves lives. When I have had the funds to place a gang member on a…

— Greg Boyle

“Once you start recognizing your own obsessions, you know you’re getting old.”

— Jeanette Winterson

The young people are the future and I want them to know that they can do and be anything.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

When you're young, the temptation is maybe to think, 'More is more.' But a lot of the time less is more.

— Daniel Ricciardo

In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist -- but I found I had nothing to say.

— Victor Borge

You don't have niggles when you're 20. But as you get older you start to feel it.

— Ben Stokes

Yes, the experience of all stages of life are valuable, not just of youth.

— Daniel Petrie

Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs its lifeline.

— Kofi Annan

I don't think there is enough youth employment or enough push for youths to kind of do want they want to do.

— Kaya Scodelario

Dear young people, do not give up your dreams of a more just world!

— Pope Francis

The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.

— Gladys Taber

Mentorship is critical for young people. Mentorship by others for my children is very high on my agenda.

— Peter Woo

Young people need to be inspired, told they can achieve anything they set their minds to.

— Jim Stynes

“Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored.”

— Oliver Markus

Everything when you're a teenager is a projection. Or at least, for me, it was. 'Who am I gonna be?'

— Earl Sweatshirt

“The nobility of age is that it conceals from the young the futility of effort.”

— Yeo-tze

Of a young hermit, an old devil. [Fr., De jeune hermite, vieil diable.]

— Francois Rabelais