Quotes about Youth

We preserve them from diseases. We keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at a youthful equilibrium. We don't permit their magnesium-calcium ratio to fall below what it was at thirty. We give them transfusions of young blood. We keep their metabolism permanently stimulated.

When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.

The older you get, the fewer slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

When you are in high school, you don't give much thought to what you can't do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.

Isn't it delightful to forget how old we are?

Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a tyrant counts this a danger, and seeks to slay or silence those possessed of spirit, while the discreet fear his power and violence.