Quotes about Youth
The most heartbreakingly beautiful girl I ever hope to see
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
— Cicero
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
— Mark Twain
The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
— Barack Obama
The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.
— John F. Kennedy
From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.
— George Bernard Shaw
Stay a child while you can be a child.
— Stephen Sondheim
I think the reason why I'm the person who I am today is because I went through those tough times when I was younger.
— LeBron James
But from the time I was very little, it was something I would do all the time, just sing, dance and act. So it wasn't something that was fake or contrived as I got older.
— Jennifer Lopez
Only children believe they're capable of everything.
— Paulo Coelho
In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.