Youth Quotes

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

~ J.k. Rowling

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

~ Edmund Burke

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

~ Isaac D'israeli

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

~ Carolyn Wells

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

~ William Shakespeare

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.

~ Charlotte Brontë

We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.

~ Ja Rule

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

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.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

~ Jonathan Swift

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

~ John Denham

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?

~ George Lucas

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

~ John Dryden

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

~ José Ortega Y Gasset

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

~ J. B. Priestley

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

~ Doris Day

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.

~ Horace Walpole

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

~ Hosea Ballou

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

~ Bill Vaughan

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.

~ Malcolm Muggeridge

I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's called Silver Needle. It's unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web.

~ Antonio Banderas

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

~ Honoré De Balzac

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

~ Maya Angelou

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

~ B. Carroll Reece

In youth we learn in age we understand.

~ Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

~ Euripides

Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.

~ Debbie Stabenow

I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control.

~ Q'orianka Kilcher

Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been.

~ Chief Seattle

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

~ Tom Ford

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

~ John Mccarthy

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

~ Maya Angelou

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

~ Francis Picabia

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

~ Angela Davis

We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived.

~ Guy Laliberte

I contracted malaria in rural Mozambique. I was a youth ambassador for Australia. For a year after high school, you give positive speeches about Australia and as part of it I traveled to lots of different countries.

~ Rebel Wilson

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.

~ Marianne Williamson

I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies, and as soon as I was able to get a subway pass, when I was 14, I joined the Museum of Modern Art and was there all weekend watching old movies.

~ Amy Heckerling