It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted.
~By Ewan McGregor ~
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.
~By Ben Lindsey ~
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to dinner together as a family, we'd learn about each other. We had something people don't get today.
~By Paul Prudhomme ~
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
~By Henry Ellis ~
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
~By Sara Teasdale ~
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
~By Herbert Hoover ~
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
~By Francis Picabia ~
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
~By Thomas More ~
I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
~By Horace Walpole ~
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
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, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody.
~By Archie Shepp ~
One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service.
~By John M. McHugh ~
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 ~
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
~By Doris Day ~
It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?
~By Knut Hamsun ~
Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
~By Felix Bloch ~
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.
~By Juliette G. Low ~
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
~By Jacqueline Bisset ~
One of my dreams in life is to do fund-raising for the youth.
~By Picabo Street ~
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
~By Rufus Choate ~
Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.
~By Jane Austen ~
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.
~By John Cheever ~
What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
~By Evelyn Waugh ~
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.
~By Logan P. Smith ~
The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.
~By Robert Wyatt ~
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
~By Marcel Proust ~
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
~By Aristotle ~
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.
~By Marc Newson ~
Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.
~By Ian Hart ~
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
~By Christina Rossetti ~
I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.
~By Howard Mumford Jones ~
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
~By Franz Kafka ~
Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth.
~By Bud Selig ~
It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
~By Peter Ustinov ~
It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
~By Ashley Montagu ~
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 ~
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
~By Petrarch ~
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
~By Martin Luther ~
Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.
~By Gavin Newsom ~
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 ~
I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.
~By Jon English ~
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
~By Betty Friedan ~
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 ~
Youth condemns; maturity condones.
~By Amy Lowell ~
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 ~
I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.
~By Arsene Wenger ~
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 ~
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
~By Samuel Butler ~
We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform.
~By Kenneth H. Cooper ~
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 ~
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
~By Anthony Burgess ~
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
~By Charles Dickens ~
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
If life were just, we would be born old and achieve youth about the time we'd saved enough to enjoy it.
~By Jim Fiebig ~
I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.
~By Nolan Ryan ~
Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
~By Francis Picabia ~
I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.
~By Brian Ferneyhough ~
For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.
~By William Banting ~
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
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 ~
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
~By Stendhal ~
Early youth is a baffling time.
~By Bruce Catton ~
Hold fast to life and youth.
~By Elizabeth Arden ~
He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.
~By Ed Smith ~
No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.
~By Ellen Terry ~
People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.
~By Mick Jagger ~
Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.
~By Donald G. Mitchell ~
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.
~By Anna Jameson ~
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.
~By Ruben Blades ~
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 ~
The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
~By Alice Roosevelt Longworth ~
To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.
~By David Frum ~
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 ~
Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America.
~By Felix Bloch ~
Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
~By Zelda Fitzgerald ~
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 ~
Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~
Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people.
~By Bud Selig ~
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
~By Chanakya ~
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.
~By George Borrow ~
Taking part in these types of programs is crucial to our youth and crucial to the future of this game.
~By Troy Vincent ~
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
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