Youth Quotes

I grew up playing games, and I remember Christmas 1981 when my dad got us an Intellivision, and we all sat around and played 'Astrosmash' for hours on end. It was a big part of my youth.

~ Roger Craig Smith

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

~ Pearl S. Buck

Fame is the thirst of youth.

~ Lord Byron

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.

~ Plato

'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.

~ Julia Roberts

I have passed English medical examinations in Hong Kong... In my youth, I experienced overseas studies. The languages of the West, its literature, its political science, its customs, its mathematics, its geography, its physics and chemistry - all these I have had the chance to study.

~ Sun Yat-Sen

He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the 'guru' - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.

~ Shimon Peres

I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.

~ Bat For Lashes

I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive ways in the classroom. The next Saturday I was acting, and thereafter it became a ritual of my youth to see a show at the Belvoir on Sundays and, if I was lucky, another at the Opera House on Monday after school.

~ David Wenham

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

~ Betty Friedan

We all make mistakes, and we all need second chances. For youth in foster care, these mistakes are often purposeful - if not consciously so; a way to test the strength of a bond and establish trust in a new parent.

~ Vanessa Diffenbaugh

In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.

~ Isabel Allende

In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.

~ Wesley Morris

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

~ Robert Browning

With actors, all our ages are out there for all to see - you can't hide anything, really. And it's kind of a relief. This is my age, this is what I look like without makeup on - who cares? That youth culture - that lying about your age - it's all denial of death anyway.

~ Julianne Moore

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

~ Aristotle

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.

~ Jena Malone

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

~ Chris Evans

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

~ Anita Brookner

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

~ Satyajit Ray

Youth has no age.

~ Pablo Picasso

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

~ Thomas Moore

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

~ David Mamet

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.

~ Maurice Chevalier

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

~ Euripides

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.

~ Linus Pauling

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

~ Cherie Lunghi

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

~ Josh Billings

In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.

~ Pope Paul Vi

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

~ Rosalyn S. Yalow

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

~ Robert Browning

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

~ Aristotle

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

~ Anne Bradstreet

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

~ Margaret Mead