Quotes about Youth

A philosopher once noted that something is odd if a person is not liberal when he is young and conservative when he is old.

I was a hotheaded young man who attempted to make up for his ignorance with militancy.

Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.

If we teach students that there is no right and wrong, why are we surprised when a couple of students gun down their classmates or a teenage mother leaves her baby in a trash can?

When we were young we thought of old age as an ailment that affected only other people.

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable

Football is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys.

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

We all have many dreams and aspirations when we are young, but sooner or later we realize we have no power to accomplish them. We cannot do the things we long to do, so our tendency is to think of our dreams and aspirations as dead. But God comes and says to us, "Arise from the dead." When God sends His inspiration, it comes to us with such miraculous power that we are able to "arise from the dead" and do the impossible.

I now believe in growing old gratefully, not gracefully. I haven't found the secret to life, or love, or eternal youth. But I do know now that youth is not the blossom but the bud, and that though one cannot always be young and wild, if you are willing to learn, to grow, to outrun the mileposts of your own wildest dreams, you can always be winsome and lucky, lovely and free.