In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
~By Salvador Dali ~
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 ~
Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.
~By Cat Stevens ~
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 ~
Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
~By J. K. Rowling ~
No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.
~By Francis Parker Yockey ~
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 ~
There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.
~By Kiefer Sutherland ~
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.
~By Henry Bessemer ~
I do feel I have a responsibility to the youths. For real.
~By Sean Paul ~
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
~By Stendhal ~
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 ~
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 ~
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
~By Edward Abbey ~
Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.
~By James Ellroy ~
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
~By James Broughton ~
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 ~
The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Early youth is a baffling time.
~By Bruce Catton ~
It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.
~By Cleveland Abbe ~
When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.
~By Tom Ford ~
It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
~By Georges Courteline ~
Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects.
~By Lion Feuchtwanger ~
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 ~
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 ~
Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
~By Navjot Singh Sidhu ~
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 ~
Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth.
~By Marlee Matlin ~
I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else.
~By Steve Albini ~
If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.
~By Clara Schumann ~
The young people look great on television. They're youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven't got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so.
~By Tony Bennett ~
Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
~By Edwin Markham ~
The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract.
~By Peter Hall ~
It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.
~By Ruben Hinojosa ~
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
~By Diogenes ~
I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.
~By David Dinkins ~
We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
~By Daisy Berkowitz ~
We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.
~By Burt Rutan ~
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 ~
It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted.
~By Ewan McGregor ~
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
~By Francis Picabia ~
We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
~By Mary McLeod Bethune ~
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
~By Anne Bradstreet ~
A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
~By Robert Browning Hamilton ~
Unless we rise to the challenge, instead of American youth being able to live the American dream, the Chinese will fulfill their dream of overtaking America.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
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 ~
My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.
~By Forest Whitaker ~
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
~By William Wordsworth ~
In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.
~By Marc Newson ~
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 ~
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 ~
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
~By J. M. Coetzee ~
Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
~By Zelda Fitzgerald ~
I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth.
~By John Thorn ~
In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.
~By Terence Stamp ~
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.
~By Robert Wyatt ~
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 ~
My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
~By Ivy Compton-Burnett ~
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.
~By Laurence Housman ~
Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.
~By Vita Sackville-West ~
Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
~By Aaron Hill ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.
~By Anna Jameson ~
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 ~
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 ~
What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.
~By Frank Abagnale ~
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 ~
We can either allow our youth to shoot baskets or watch them continue to shoot people.
~By Henry Cisneros ~
A lot of them want to come and play for Manchester United. They want to play because Alex has a record of giving youth a chance and we have the history and heritage of Manchester United.
~By David Gill ~
Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.
~By Sela Ward ~
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 ~
In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.
~By Bruce Catton ~
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
~By Benjamin Spock ~
Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight.
~By Afrika Bambaataa ~
If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.
~By Michelangelo ~
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 ~
That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.
~By Willie Stargell ~
There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.
~By Elliott Gould ~
The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.
~By Dorothy Dix ~
A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.
~By Kim Jong Il ~
Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.
~By Kurtis Blow ~
A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School.
~By Gene Wolfe ~
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
~By Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach ~
The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'.
~By June Whitfield ~
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
~By Marya Mannes ~
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 ~
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 ~
Sending our youth to war is wrong.
~By Michael Berryman ~
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 ~
The USA have recently done well in the Olympics and the Youth World Cup. So I think there will be some good young players available in the future, and not too expensive which is important to the club.
~By Richard Gough ~
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 ~
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
~By Betty Friedan ~
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