It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
~By Al Bernstein ~
Sport must be accessible to working class youth.
~By Pierre de Coubertin ~
The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning.
~By Roy Haynes ~
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
~By Aristotle ~
I've experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I am encouraged that the federal government is taking an active role in the Cascade Youth and Family Center.
~By Greg Walden ~
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
~By James M. Barrie ~
Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong.
~By Kiefer Sutherland ~
Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.
~By David Bowie ~
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
~By Natalie Clifford Barney ~
Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young.
~By Goldie Hawn ~
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
The more decadent a culture gets, the more they have a need for what they don't have at all, which is innocence, so you end up with kiddie porn and a perverse obsession with youth.
~By Joni Mitchell ~
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
~By Euripides ~
The churches... have lost much of their authority over youth because they have refused to re-examine their religious sanctions and their dogmatic preaching in the light of modern physiology, psychology and sociology.
~By Agnes E. Meyer ~
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
~By Joseph Addison ~
These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable.
~By Winifred Holtby ~
All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.
~By David Cronenberg ~
Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
~By Olympia Dukakis ~
Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth.
~By William Banting ~
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.
~By Lisa Bonet ~
Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
~By Brigitte Bardot ~
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.
~By Ruben Hinojosa ~
This is going to sound strange, but I really didn't think I would pass 30. I don't know why or whatever, I just didn't. That's a very weird thing to say, I'm sorry. I don't know. Maybe it's because I was drinking so much as a youth.
~By Kristin Davis ~
Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.
~By Ruben Blades ~
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
~By Maurice Chevalier ~
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
~By Booker T. Washington ~
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.
~By Steve Buyer ~
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.
~By Billie Joe Armstrong ~
Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.
~By Compay Segundo ~
Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
~By Felix Bloch ~
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
~By Malcolm Muggeridge ~
Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.
~By Debbie Stabenow ~
It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
~By Peter Ustinov ~
Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
~By B. Carroll Reece ~
I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
~By Charles Sumner ~
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
~By Thomas More ~
Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
~By Eric Allin Cornell ~
Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
~By Edgard Varese ~
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
~By Navjot Singh Sidhu ~
A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick.
~By Mary Wilson Little ~
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
~By Henry James ~
Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
~By Tryon Edwards ~
I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.
~By Jason Bateman ~
Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
~By E. M. Forster ~
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
~By James Joyce ~
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.
~By Conrad Aiken ~
It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.
~By Helen Garner ~
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
~By Helen Keller ~
I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your orgasms in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take exercise, and you'll be fine.
~By Betty Dodson ~
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
~By Robert Browning ~
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
~By Plato ~
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Diamonds are forever, my youth is not.
~By Jill St. John ~
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
~By Robertson Davies ~
The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
~By Petrarch ~
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
~By Julie Burchill ~
My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
~By Armistead Maupin ~
So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.
~By Joan Jett ~
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
~By Rollo May ~
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
~By Diogenes ~
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
~By John Thorn ~
Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
~By Djuna Barnes ~
There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do.
~By Kim Gordon ~
I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front.
~By Stephen Lewis ~
Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.
~By Dorothy L. Sayers ~
In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'
~By Tom Lehrer ~
It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures.
~By Jerry Stiller ~
The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.
~By Felix de Weldon ~
The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.
~By Rosalyn S. Yalow ~
To me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it's important to the gay youth - who are now setting the agenda - then its important to me.
~By Harvey Fierstein ~
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
~By Anne Bradstreet ~
The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.
~By Sargent Shriver ~
I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.
~By Bernardo Bertolucci ~
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
~By Arthur Rimbaud ~
I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself.
~By Bill Forsyth ~
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
~By Sophia Loren ~
I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar.
~By Trevor Horn ~
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
In recent years, the choice of drugs on these reservations and throughout my district has been methamphetamines. It has destroyed the rule of law among the reservation people. It is killing our tribal youth in this country.
~By Rick Renzi ~
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