Youth Quotes

‘Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.’ – David Mamet

‘Youth is something I never wanna take for granted. I just want to smile and live life.’ – Tyler, The Creator

‘The youth is the hope of our future.’ – Jose Rizal

‘Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.’ – Aristotle

‘I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.’ – Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

‘Youth is wasted on the young.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.’ – Betty Friedan

‘The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.’ – Diogenes

‘Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.’ – Victor Hugo

‘The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.’ – Kurt Cobain

‘Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.’ – Arthur Schopenhauer

‘In youth we learn; in age we understand.’ – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

‘If youth knew; if age could.’ – Sigmund Freud

‘Youth comes but once in a lifetime.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.’ – Samuel Ullman

‘Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.’ – Chanakya

‘Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.’ – Joseph Addison

‘The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.’ – Kailash Satyarthi

‘Keep true to the dreams of your youth.’ – Friedrich Schiller

‘Age considers; youth ventures.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.’ – Sophia Loren

‘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

‘We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.’ – Mary McLeod Bethune

‘Around the age of 14, I was very discouraged from a coach. It was my first youth club team while playing soccer. She told me at the time that I wasn’t good enough to play on the team, that I would never get into the game.’ – Alex Morgan

‘If I were to be Miss Universe, I will use my voice to influence the youth and I would raise awareness to certain causes like HIV awareness that is timely and relevant to my country which is the Philippines.’ – Pia Wurtzbach

‘Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.’ – Franz Kafka

‘Youth has no age.’ – Pablo Picasso

‘When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.’ – Tom Ford

‘Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.’ – John Muir

‘We want our legacy to stand upon the youth. We want to give knowledge to the younger generation and be a part of changing the game.’ – Takeoff

‘Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!’ – Edwin Markham

‘To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.’ – Pearl S. Buck

‘The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.’ – Coretta Scott King

‘Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture – our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes.’ – Virgil Abloh

‘The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.’ – Edmund Burke

‘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

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

‘Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.’ – Lana Del Rey

‘In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.’ – Confucius

‘I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.’ – Major Taylor

‘In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!’ – Homer

‘As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states – no more, no less.’ – Noam Chomsky

‘I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.’ – Martin Luther

‘The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘The biggest lie about getting older is that excitement and growth end with youth.’ – MO

‘The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you.’ – Tom Mann

‘The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don’t. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.’ – Martha Beck

‘The past is the past, but if you’re overanalyzing or trying to repeat it, you’re gonna get stuck. I just had a wonderful youth, and I loved everything about it, so I really try and hang on to it.’ – Chris Evans

‘Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.’ – Hosea Ballou

‘Music is the biggest tool of revolution – the best way to reach out to the youth and involve them. If you can’t contribute to the world with your art, I don’t see the meaning of life.’ – Kailash Kher

‘But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.’ – Rebecca Harding Davis

‘Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.’ – Anita Brookner

‘Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.’ – Bo Bennett

‘Youth theatre isn’t just about a precocious child that wants to sing and dance in front of people. It’s for everyone; it’s about a community, it’s about being supported by your peer group. You learn skills – not just acting but all the other sides – working in the TV, film, and theatre industry.’ – Sam Heughan

‘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

‘Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.’ – George Borrow

‘In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.’ – Pope Paul VI

‘Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning you’re not old.’ – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

‘The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.’ – Will Durant

‘I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.’ – Brigitte Bardot

‘Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty – self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.’ – Maria Montessori

‘The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.’ – Carl Jung

‘Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.’ – Louisa May Alcott

‘A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.’ – Kim Jong Il

‘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

‘All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley

‘In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.’ – Salvador Dali

‘If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?’ – Vincent Van Gogh

‘The end of the First World War had thrown Germany’s youth into great turmoil. The reins of power had fallen from the hands of a deeply disillusioned older generation, and the younger ones drew together in larger and smaller groups to blaze new paths or, at least, to discover a new star to steer by.’ – Werner Heisenberg

‘Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.’ – Anna Jameson

‘Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.’ – Jacqueline Bisset

‘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

‘Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.’ – Jean Paul

‘That arrogance of youth and that kind of ignorant confidence can get you through a whole lot of things, and then life does its stuff, and you get smashed around and beaten up. You get full of doubts, and you end up making a person out of those bits and pieces.’ – Robyn Davidson

‘We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?’ – Arthur C. Clarke

‘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

‘For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.’ – William Wordsworth

‘If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.’ – Michelangelo

‘I hope to continue to inspire our nation’s youth to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math so they, too, may reach for the stars.’ – Ellen Ochoa

‘No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.’ – Booker T. Washington

‘To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?’ – George Lucas

‘A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.’ – William Shakespeare

‘A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.’ – Saint Ambrose

‘Flexibility is youth.’ – Diamond Dallas Page

‘I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.’ – Saint Patrick

‘Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.’ – Soren Kierkegaard

‘Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.’ – James Madison

‘Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact? If you don’t have a great idea of your own, there are plenty of great teams that need you – unknown startups and established teams in giant companies alike.’ – Justin Rosenstein

‘Ripen your mind to the glorious history of the ages and revel in your mastery as today’s youth shall look upon you as a sage.’ – Maximillian Degenerez

‘I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.’ – Charles Sumner

‘Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘I remember the youth movement in 1968. It started on American university campuses as a protest against the Vietnam war, then came to Paris, Frankfurt and Berlin. Within a year, you had an uprising of youth against their elders.’ – Helmut Schmidt

‘Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.’ – W. Somerset Maugham

‘Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.’ – Thomas Gray

‘In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.’ – Maria Sibylla Merian

‘That’s where the future lies, in the youth of today.’ – Willie Stargell

‘Youth condemns; maturity condones.’ – Amy Lowell

‘Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

‘We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war.’ – Smedley Butler

‘There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.’ – Marcel Proust

‘I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘I come from a very humble background. My father had to work really hard to become an assistant director. For a large part of his youth, he worked in a mill and took up odd jobs to make ends meet. We lived in a small room and could only afford a meal a day.’ – Dhanush

‘After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘Listen, you know this: If there’s not a rebellious youth culture, there’s no culture at all. It’s absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we’re supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas.’ – John Lydon

‘In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.’ – Bruce Catton

‘I really wanted to give back to the youth – especially abused or underprivileged kids. Just hearing their stories breaks your heart. So that’s who I wanted to give back to.’ – Austin Rivers

‘It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.’ – Ruben Hinojosa

‘It can be very emotional to develop young guys and put them in the right direction. I love it. I love it when they are players for the youth team and then for the first time in their lives they play in a professional game.’ – Julian Nagelsmann

‘Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘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

‘Education is not a tool for development – individual, community and the nation. It is the foundation for our future. It is empowerment to make choices and emboldens the youth to chase their dreams.’ – Nita Ambani

‘When I was a youth, to be called ‘African’ was a diss. At school, the African kids used to lie and say they were Jamaican. So when I first came in the game, and I’m saying lyrics like, ‘I make Nigerians proud of their tribal scars/ My bars make you push up your chest like bras,’ that was a big deal for me.’ – Skepta

‘At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.’ – Satyajit Ray

‘We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.’ – Juliette Gordon Low

‘Death, torture and prison are part of daily life for the youth of Iran. They are not like us, my friends and I at their age; they are not scared. They are not what we were. They hold hands and scream: ‘Don’t be afraid! Don’t be afraid! We are together!’ They understand that no one will give them their rights; they must go get them.’ – Marjane Satrapi

‘George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.’ – Mark Twain

‘I was born in Dortmund and grew up here, so you become automatically a black and yellow. I played here for many years in the youth ranks, but at first I did not have the chance to become a professional football player at BVB and to realize my dream.’ – Marco Reus

‘When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange – my youth.’ – Sara Teasdale

‘We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.’ – Narendra Modi

‘Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.’ – Jean Genet

‘Agriculture needs to be modernized so as to give work to youth, women and men from the country.’ – Jovenel Moise

‘She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.’ – Christina Rossetti

‘In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.’ – Josh Billings

‘Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.’ – Philip Sidney

‘I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth.’ – Doug Hutchison

‘I didn’t know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce.’ – Patti Smith

‘Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.’ – Dorothy L. Sayers

‘I’ve been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It’s very important to give back as a youth. It’s as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.’ – Queen Latifah

‘Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton

‘They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I’ll never make the mistake of being seventy again.’ – Casey Stengel

‘The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.’ – Petrarch

‘What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.’ – Thomas Moore

‘Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.’ – Arthur Rimbaud

‘If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.’ – Clara Schumann

‘Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.’ – Lactantius

‘Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.’ – Jose Ortega y Gasset

‘It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.’ – Helen Keller

‘Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.’ – Anne Bradstreet

‘All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That’s where I learned about love.’ – Leo Buscaglia

‘A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.’ – Robertson Davies

‘Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.’ – Walter Savage Landor

‘Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.’ – James Joyce

‘Cosmetics makers have always sold ‘hope in a jar’ – creams and potions that promise youth, beauty, sex appeal, and even love for the women who use them.’ – Virginia Postrel

‘Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.’ – Aristotle

‘We really want our kids, and our youth, to understand that one, knowledge is power, and two, you don’t have to be shy about being educated, and being ahead of the learning curve.’ – Tobias Harris

‘Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.’ – Edward Abbey

‘One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘I played for Middlesbrough’s youth team. At the age of 16, I went into a shed at the training ground and was told that they weren’t signing me on, so that was the end of that dream. Football was my life. I played football when I got to school, football every break and football as soon as I got home.’ – Bob Mortimer

‘What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.’ – Robert Browning

‘Diamonds are forever, my youth is not.’ – Jill St. John

‘Youth doesn’t reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.’ – Francis Picabia

‘One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.’ – R. Buckminster Fuller

‘My heart’s toward youth ministry, but I don’t know. I never would have thought I would have written a book. And God kind of directed that. So we’ll see what the next is.’ – Tony Dungy

‘To all trans youth out there, I would like to say respect yourself and be proud of who you are.’ – Andreja Pejic

‘Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!’ – Charles Dickens

‘Xavi was a big idol in my youth because he was smart in his head. He was not the biggest player because of his body length, but he was one of the greatest players because he was always smart in his mind. He had really good technique.’ – Joshua Kimmich

‘Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.’ – Frank Lloyd Wright

‘I’m a writer; as soon as I imagine what would happen if I found the fountain of youth, it turns into a dystopia in my head.’ – Marie Brennan

‘When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.’ – Willa Cather

‘Youth doesn’t need friends – it only needs crowds.’ – Zelda Fitzgerald

‘I am a huge advocate for anti-bullying in our youth. What I have seen with the rise of social media is that children are not facing bullying on a playground, they are facing it on their cell phones.’ – Whitney Wolfe Herd

‘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

‘It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘In my misspent youth, I was risky.’ – Jason Statham

‘Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.’ – Thomas A. Edison

‘Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

‘Let your youth have free reign. It won’t come again, so be bold, and no repenting.’ – Nikos Kazantzakis

‘What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?’ – Evelyn Waugh

‘I’m youth, I’m joy, I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.’ – James M. Barrie

‘The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and ‘how well you look’.’ – Nelson Rockefeller

‘If I have to pick one story that most influenced ‘The Hunger Games,’ it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which I read when I was about 8 years old. In punishment for past deeds, Athens periodically had to send seven youths and seven maidens to a labyrinth. In the maze was this Minotaur, and it would eat them.’ – Suzanne Collins

‘The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.’ – Maimonides

‘Because of social media today, the youth have more power in their hands than they’ve ever had.’ – Aidan Gallagher

‘I personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quarantine any Jim Crow conscription system.’ – A. Philip Randolph

‘I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.’ – Henri Matisse

”Passione’ is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments, of fleeting emotions, of sleepless nights.’ – Andrea Bocelli

‘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

‘You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you’re still young at heart.’ – Joni Mitchell

‘Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they’re connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You’ve got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand.’ – Quincy Jones

‘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

‘Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.’ – Ellen G. White

‘Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.’ – Alexander McQueen

‘Whether it’s my age or my misspent youth, sometimes I forget whether I’ve worked with somebody or not.’ – Kevin Bacon

‘When I was playing in the Ajax youth teams – when I was, say, 14, 15 – you started to get all those international youth tournaments. All those English teams came. Well, the English were much further than we were.’ – Johan Cruyff

‘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

‘History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘As a youth, I was much more of a Zionist. But Israel was very different then. Israel’s changed, and so have I.’ – Simon Sebag Montefiore

‘I remember being young in the 1960s… we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.’ – Bernardo Bertolucci

‘I learned how to take other people’s mechanisms of promoting their stuff through me as opposed to promoting my own stuff, as far as getting Snoop DeVilles, SnoopDeGrills, Snoop Doggy Dogg biscuits, Snoop Dogg record label, Snoop Dogg bubble gum, Snoop Youth Football League.’ – Snoop Dogg

‘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.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘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

‘What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.’ – Frank Abagnale

‘Sonic Youth, for better or worse, is/was a machine that carried me along through pregnancy, motherhood, and creative opportunities I never would have achieved on my own. I’m grateful and surprised that we were listened to, loved, ignored, and overrated.’ – Kim Gordon

‘To reap this demographic dividend, we need to enable the youth to acquire skills required to get the job or become self-employed.’ – Chanda Kochhar

‘The most significant social pathology of my youth was the generation gap.’ – Michael Wolff

‘The most underused, under-appreciated group of people in the world is our youth.’ – Ian Somerhalder

‘Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.’ – William S. Burroughs

‘Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.’ – David Bowie

‘A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.’ – Cesare Pavese

‘I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.’ – Isaac Barrow

‘The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.’ – Chanakya

‘Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet’s job. The rest is literature.’ – Jean Cocteau

‘There are two kinds of individuals on Planet Earth who do not have beards – women and youth.’ – Phil Robertson

‘I think a great idea would be involving our various military services along the border all the way from San Diego to Houston. We’ve got military bases all over the country. We can just move some people down there and let those cartels who are doing a lot of hurt to the youth of America, let those cartels fight against the Marine Corps.’ – Bobby Knight

‘Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘I think that when we’re talking about youth violence, we’re talking about kids who don’t have opportunities, so they’re engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them.’ – Matt Gonzalez

‘For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.’ – Doris Day

‘Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn’t imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.’ – Michelle Obama

‘I can guarantee you that at least 90% of my people that are my age group in Nigeria – who are considered the youth – had no clue about how Nigeria, the real origins of Nigeria.’ – Burna Boy

‘I go to school the youth to learn the future.’ – Robert Frost

‘Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘No individual has done more to help me pursue a career in science than my wife of forty-five years. I met Enid Cassandra Morgan during the election campaign of 1948 when she was a Sunday school teacher, a leader of the youth organizations of St. Phillips Episcopal Church, and the head of Harlem Youth for the election of Henry Wallace.’ – Robert Fogel

‘There is a Fountain of Youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.’ – Sophia Loren

‘Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one’s youth remain the most vivid in manhood.’ – Gustav Stresemann

‘The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.’ – Rachel Weisz

‘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

‘My mom wanted me to be a youth pastor, and when I became a comedian, she said it was close enough.’ – Pete Holmes

‘Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.’ – Euripides

‘The reality of Katrina didn’t really strike me until the first time I flew up in a helicopter and saw areas of the city that I had ridden my bicycle as a youth being fully flooded.’ – Ray Nagin

‘The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for his authority.’ – Helen Andelin

‘I’ve always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.’ – Alice Roosevelt Longworth

‘All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.’ – Elizabeth Bowen

‘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

‘To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.’ – Robert Greene

‘Seven-11 is the pulse-beat of America. I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a song about a 7-11 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, but write it in such a way that American’s youth can identify and slurp along with the Boss. Hail the Boss! Hail 7-11!’ – Henry Rollins

‘In capital we trust. Capital is our savior, our holy grail, our fountain of youth, or at least health, for banks.’ – Bethany McLean

‘We can either allow our youth to shoot baskets or watch them continue to shoot people.’ – Henry Cisneros

‘Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.’ – George A. Smith

‘I used to spend a lot of time at football training, but that time was later spent in amateur acting classes and my local youth theatre, in plays at school and after-school clubs. That filled the void.’ – Sam Claflin

‘I believe that investment in sports is investment in youth. And that, in turn, is investment in the future.’ – Naveen Patnaik

‘My parents actively tried to discourage me from going into music – especially Dad, because of the troubled times he had in his youth.’ – Andrew Ridgeley

‘The National Youth Theatre did one very simple but incredible thing for me: it made me realise I had choices.’ – Gina McKee

‘I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my youth, and this dream has grown with me. Considering the mystical body of the Church, I desired to see myself in them all.’ – Th√©r√®se of Lisieux

‘Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.’ – Donald G. Mitchell

‘Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a step. The larger goal is to see that the education of our youth is not merely desegregated, but that it is excellent.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘Apathy in youth culture is pretty stark.’ – Dominic Holland

‘I partly know why I have not led a perfect life like other believers. But I avow to my Lord, and I do not lie, that from the time when I first knew him, the love of God and the fear of him has grown in me from my youth so that I have, by the power of God, always till now kept the faith.’ – Saint Patrick

‘We must all work together to end youth homelessness in America.’ – Jewel

‘There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.’ – Salma Hayek

‘I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.’ – Maya Angelou

‘In western culture, we have ignored death. We’re running the other way – everything is about life and youth. So, there’s something resonant about walking around with our own death masks. Zombies are the visible embodiment of death staring at us with our own faces.’ – Andrew Lincoln

‘In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I’d sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind.’ – Sandra Cisneros

‘But, in North Korea, it’s just the opposite. There’s one story. It’s written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you’ll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.’ – Adam Johnson

‘What I kind of want to spread as my message to all kinds of youth that I get to reach out to is, you can do cool stuff; you’ve just got to put in time and be dedicated.’ – Ann Makosinski

‘I think it’s good to have a positive influence on youth sometimes. That’s wavy.’ – Koffee

‘There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.’ – J. B. Priestley

‘Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.’ – Jane Austen

‘I describe the relationship between man and woman as a Hegelian relationship between master and slave. As long as men are able to increase their sexual value through work, fame or wealth, while women are only powerful through their body, beauty and youth, nothing will change.’ – Elfriede Jelinek

‘Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.’ – E. M. Forster

‘It’s true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that’s something I am very proud of.’ – Olivia Hussey

‘I had very little going for me as a kid except for the fact that I had demanding parents and was very good at filling out bubbles on standardized tests. I went to the Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins University because I did well on the SAT. I went to Exeter because I did well on the SAT.’ – Andrew Yang

‘I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law.’ – Hosni Mubarak

‘I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it’s a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.’ – Patrick Roy

‘Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘Had I been more religious in my youth, I might have become a pastor, for it was the pastoral role I’d sought.’ – Paul Kalanithi

‘In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.’ – Gene Tunney

‘Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.’ – Emil Cioran

‘With all my heart, I plead with the Latter-day Saints to live honestly with the Lord in the payment of tithes and offerings. I plead with youth to establish this habit while you are still young and to resolve to continue with it all the days of your lives.’ – Gordon B. Hinckley

‘An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘My parents had us in church every Sunday, every Wednesday. It was more of a tradition at that point; I didn’t have a personal relationship with the Lord until I went to the altar call one Sunday, and the youth pastor told us to make a decision for ourselves.’ – Stephen Curry

‘There’s nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there’s nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.’ – Elliott Gould

‘For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty – they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.’ – F. Sionil Jose

‘The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America’s young people, ‘We be thugs.’ The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.’ – Jacques d’Amboise

‘It’s best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.’ – Charles Kuralt

‘Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.’ – Navjot Singh Sidhu

‘The three ages of man: youth, middle age and ‘my word you do look well’.’ – June Whitfield

‘Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.’ – Abu Bakr

‘We equate beauty for women with youth, and that’s sad. It’s a shame it’s so hard for so many of us to appreciate the beauty of an older woman and to accept it in ourselves.’ – Jennifer Connelly

‘It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow… that are the aftermath of war.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘I’m definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.’ – John Cusack

‘I want to inspire the youth to become entrepreneurs.’ – Justin Kan

‘What’s a man’s age? He must hurry more, that’s all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.’ – Robert Browning

‘I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.’ – Howard Mumford Jones

‘I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization is to create a national network that connects every youth aging out of foster care to the critical resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive in adulthood.’ – Vanessa Diffenbaugh

‘You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you’ve been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.’ – George Herman

‘The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.’ – Will Durant

‘I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don’t make that mistake yourself. Life’s too damn short.’ – Armistead Maupin

‘Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.’ – Gore Vidal

‘The industry has always had a problem with the 18-to-25 market, but EDM is perfect – a unique identifier for a group in that mental and fiscal state; in their youth, but free to do whatever they want. We filled that void.’ – Deadmau5

‘One of the bibles of my youth was ‘Birds of the West Indies,’ by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, ‘My God, that’s the dullest name I’ve ever heard,’ so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one.’ – Ian Fleming

‘I would like to say that to mislead the youth is not only deceit but a crime.’ – Rajnath Singh

‘Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.’ – Aristotle

‘I’ve seen pictures of myself with makeup on, and I look like those women who look like they’re wearing makeup so they can look young, and I don’t think that’s good. They have all these products now called – wait, what’s it called, it’s my favorite – youth suppressant, or age go away; they don’t work.’ – Carrie Fisher

‘Just as kids need to learn to respect their elders, we are a society that increasingly respects our youth.’ – Faith Salie

‘The draconian spirit that seeks to enhance penalties and to lower the age at which juveniles will be tries as adults, is part of the ‘whole cloth’ of three strikes. Our failure to address the depair of our inner-city youth is only delayed by our over-confidence in a stance that is ‘tougher than thou.” – Greg Boyle

‘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

‘My sense of loneliness was not particularly great until I reached sixty. From that time on, I would have given an ex-king’s ransom if I had been able, in my youth to seduce a lady into thinking of me as a handyman and provider around the house.’ – Frank Crowninshield

‘We need punk now; we need it more than ever. We need rebellion by youth.’ – John Cameron Mitchell

‘Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.’ – Peter Medawar

‘Sleep is a regenerative process where we heal and where our neurons build strong connections. It’s like a fountain of youth that we dive into every night.’ – Mikhail Varshavski

‘Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you ‘sell’ only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience.’ – Wynton Marsalis

‘I just wanna start a brand that inspires and is geared towards youth.’ – Virgil Abloh

‘A man’s character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.’ – Hesketh Pearson

‘I started a youth center in Houston. The kids would come in and want to learn to box; they wanted to tear up the world, beat up the world. And I’d try to show them they didn’t need anger. They didn’t need all that killing instinct they’d read about. You can be a human being and pursue boxing as a sport.’ – George Foreman

‘Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.’ – Larry Merchant

‘Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.’ – Edward Moore

‘I’ve always liked telling stories. That probably came from my dad, who definitely had the gift of gab and who wove a kind of personal folklore about his youth – stories full of adventure and ghosts and wild antics.’ – Cullen Bunn

‘Hockey is no longer a big four. It’s football, basketball, baseball and soccer. Now, I’m not talking MLS. I’m talking COPA, World Cup, men’s, women’s, MLS, youth… and there’s a lot of reasons for it.’ – Colin Cowherd

‘People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It’s very selfish, but it’s understandable.’ – Mick Jagger

‘I’m not bothered by the paparazzi and I don’t feel hemmed in, I’ve never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn’t quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I’ve never felt that.’ – Albert Finney

‘Preparing youth for employment requires training that is demand-driven to meet the needs of companies and ensure that young people are taught marketable skills.’ – Stephen A. Schwarzman

‘Most of the students whom I have lectured were inquisitive to learn and contribute towards my vision. So, the youth who want to achieve in life can do a lot for society.’ – Arunachalam Muruganantham

‘If I remember the suffering of my childhood and youth, it could make me sad. But if one thinks of the benefits, it is precisely because of these sufferings since I was small that I have become a man. I have become a person who thinks, who has feelings, because I have suffered.’ – Suharto

‘The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.’ – Dorothy Dix

‘My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘When some kids get a sniff of the first team at a big club, you see them change. They can become big-time, especially so if they happen to be captain of the youth team.’ – Peter Crouch

‘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

‘Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.’ – Alan Ladd

‘It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one’s earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.’ – Ashley Montagu

‘Reading ‘Youth in Revolt’ might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn’t do that very well.’ – Rob Thomas

‘Punjabi songs have been a rage in Bollywood since a very long time. The lyrics’ beat and the meaning behind them give an emotional touch to their lives and connects with youth.’ – Guru Randhawa

‘An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘One of Giants of Africa’s fundamental mottos is – Dream Big. We believe that basketball can be used as a tool to educate and develop youth around the world to accomplish their dreams.’ – Masai Ujiri

‘Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.’ – Charles B. Rangel

‘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

‘Cirque du Soleil means Circus of the Sun. When I need to take time to reenergize, I go somewhere by the ocean to sit back and watch the sunsets. That is where the idea of ‘Soleil’ came from, on a beach in Hawaii, and because the sun is the symbol of youth and energy.’ – Guy Laliberte

‘With EarthEcho Expedition: Acid Apocalypse, we are working with youth leaders and noted experts on the changing chemistry of our ocean to help illuminate one of our most pressing and inscrutable environmental issues.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘When children and youth are deprived of their right to education, their community is deprived of a sustainable future. It is all the more true with refugees.’ – Forest Whitaker

‘With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is bread and success for every youth under the American flag who has energy and ability to seize his opportunity.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘Obviously, you lose sight of certain things as you get older. In some cases; for example, youth culture.’ – Paul Whitehouse

‘The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what’s impossible.’ – Adam Braun

‘Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.’ – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

‘Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.’ – Clint Eastwood

‘Fame is the thirst of youth.’ – Lord Byron

‘For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.’ – Chris Evans

‘When I was going through school, I joined the Lyceum Youth Theatre, and that kind of cemented it. Through being in and around the building and watching shows, I realised that there was something I really loved about it, so I went into the stage management side.’ – Sam Heughan

‘Looking forward, we see that it is the youth of today who hold the key to tomorrow. And we can help unlock it.’ – Tamzin Merchant

‘Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, ‘Just wait.” – Gloria Steinem

‘When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.’ – Patrick Henry

‘If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other’s nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.’ – Havelock Ellis

‘All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that’s now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.’ – Conrad Aiken

‘Let me make it clear that the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1961 is not primarily concerned with delinquency prevention. Rather, it is designed to help all types of young men or women who suffer deficiencies of training or opportunity which keep them unemployed.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘If we went around just throwing people on the scrap heap because of one or two things that they might have done in their youth, I think we would lose a lot of talent.’ – James Cleverly

‘The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.’ – Joey Ramone

‘One of my favorite books was ‘The Book of Immortality’ by Adam Leith Gollner, which talks about cheating death and life extension and frames with a story that David Copperfield finds a fountain of youth on an island he bought.’ – Scott Snyder

‘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

‘Hold fast to life and youth.’ – Elizabeth Arden

‘The feeling I had several times in youth, when lying in a field staring up at the night sky, that I might fall into the infinite void – for people like me, this idea mostly provokes anxiety.’ – Claire Messud

‘The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.’ – Natasha Lyonne

‘If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.’ – Al Bernstein

‘I’m interested in youth culture and popular culture.’ – Marc Newson

‘If you dont invest in grassroots and if you dont invest in youth football, then its inevitable that youll pay the price somewhere down the track.’ – Angelos Postecoglou

‘Novi Sad is a really beautiful city, and the club is really nice. It is one of the best youth academies in Serbia.’ – Dusan Tadic

‘It is better for a youth to earn living selling pakodas instead of being unemployed. Making pakodas is not shameful; what is shameful is comparing such a person with a beggar.’ – Amit Shah

”Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.’ – Edward Moore

‘Ours is decidedly not an age of Abrahams, Jacobs, or of youthful Elazars proud to be regarded as men of seventy. On the contrary, it is one in which the external signs of aging are avoided at all costs, youth is worshipped, and immortality is sought not in children but in Botox.’ – Meir Soloveichik

‘Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘I was baptized as an infant. I was confirmed as an adolescent; I was active in my church’s youth group and in my university student group. I was married before the church’s altar; trained at the church’s seminaries, ordained deacon and priest at age 24.’ – John Shelby Spong

‘I was competitive ping-pong player. I played in youth tournaments, under the age of 13.’ – Jimmy O. Yang

‘So many tend to brand the Internet as the downfall of youth, but ‘Ready Player One’ hints that it’s more complicated than that.’ – Rebecca Serle

‘I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.’ – Major Taylor

‘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

‘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

‘Bringing in innovation and youth is not a bad thing: it is a courageous choice.’ – Paolo Maldini

‘I think sports are extremely beneficial for our youth. They parallel life in so many ways.’ – Kerri Strug

‘The man is distinguished from the youth by the fact that he takes the world as it is, instead of everywhere fancying it amiss and wanting to improve it, i.e. model it after his ideal; in him the view that one must deal with the world according to his interest, not according to his ideals, becomes confirmed.’ – Max Stirner

‘My dad was a prize fighter in his youth. My boxing skills are very limited. I did train for most of my youth but couldn’t really see the point of getting punched in the head. I’m a lover, not a fighter, but I do enjoy the sport in its purest form. As a child, my heroes were my dad and Muhammad Ali.’ – Jimmy Barnes

‘One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.’ – Anthony Burgess

‘If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.’ – Alfred North Whitehead

‘During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.’ – Amin Maalouf

‘I think I don’t regret a single ‘excess’ of my responsive youth – I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.’ – Henry James

‘I’m currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!’ – Gil Gerard

‘To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.’ – Major Taylor

‘I don’t want our youth to become anti-romantic. We have to make room for the soul.’ – Marcel Marceau

‘In the impetuousness of youth, when you’re 21 years old, you want results yesterday.’ – Frank Sinatra Jr.

‘I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.’ – Margaret Atwood

‘When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.’ – Samantha Power

‘In France, they call the beauty of youth ‘the evil beauty.’ You don’t have it because of you but because you’re born with it. The other kind of beauty is your own work, and it takes forever.’ – Monica Bellucci

‘You should never get ahead of yourself car-wise; no Merc when you’re still in the youth team, no Porsche unless you’re a Premier League regular.’ – Peter Crouch

‘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

‘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

‘Don’t laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.’ – Logan Pearsall Smith

‘Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.’ – Lionel Trilling

‘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

‘Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.’ – Plautus

‘The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.’ – Joseph Addison

‘We pay when old for the excesses of youth.’ – J. B. Priestley

‘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

‘To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.’ – Rufus Choate

‘Youth is a period of missed opportunities.’ – Cyril Connolly

‘It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.’ – W. Somerset Maugham

‘Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.’ – Rollo May

‘Sport must be accessible to working class youth.’ – Pierre de Coubertin

‘In my youth there were words you couldn’t say in front of a girl; now you can’t say ‘girl.” – Tom Lehrer

‘Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.’ – Virgil

‘One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.’ – Virginia Woolf

‘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

‘America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.’ – Harold Rosenberg

‘Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.’ – Tryon Edwards

‘If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.’ – James Russell Lowell

‘How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.’ – John Dryden

‘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

‘Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.’ – Jonathan Swift

‘The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.’ – Charles Caleb Colton

‘Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.’ – Hannah More

‘Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.’ – W. Somerset Maugham

‘Youth, what man’s age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.’ – John Denham

‘All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they’re stereotypes because they’re true.’ – David Cronenberg

‘Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.’ – Alexander Pope

‘Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.’ – Aaron Hill

‘Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.’ – V. S. Pritchett

‘I mention my age because I find people in this country – women, not men, of course – women are so troubled by their age. There’s a culture of youth, and it’s a phony culture.’ – Teresa Heinz

‘We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.’ – Burt Rutan

‘I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.’ – Ted Stevens

‘I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.’ – Mary Roberts Rinehart

‘No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.’ – Ellen Terry

‘Today’s youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their ‘sore and yellow’ as this splendid man’s creations have in mine!’ – Peter Cushing

‘I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth’s follies – thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.’ – Jon English

‘Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.’ – Ed Smith

‘Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.’ – Edwin Arlington Robinson

‘An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.’ – John McCarthy

‘Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.’ – Carey Williams

‘The USA have recently done well in the Olympics and the Youth World Cup. So I think there will be some good young players available in the future, and not too expensive which is important to the club.’ – Richard Gough

‘I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.’ – Lamar Hunt

‘Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people.’ – Bud Selig

‘A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.’ – Robert Browning

‘But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.’ – William Godwin

‘The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.’ – William Godwin

‘Taking part in these types of programs is crucial to our youth and crucial to the future of this game.’ – Troy Vincent

‘The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning.’ – Roy Haynes

‘Jessica Simpson is the youth ambassador for Operation Smile, and an episode of The Apprentice featured a team managing a charity concert she put on. Donald Trump came on stage and pledged a donation.’ – Roma Downey

‘I speak for a lot of church groups, youth groups, schools, colleges and do personal appearances. I’ve done conventions and trade shows. A lot of different little hats.’ – Donna Douglas

‘I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself.’ – Bill Forsyth

‘In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.’ – Peter Davison

‘I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front.’ – Stephen Lewis

‘I do feel I have a responsibility to the youths. For real.’ – Sean Paul

‘Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.’ – Ruben Blades

‘Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.’ – Horatio Alger

‘Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.’ – Joseph Lancaster

‘The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.’ – Joseph Lancaster

‘Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.’ – Joseph Lancaster

‘I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.’ – Joseph Lancaster

‘Yes, the experience of all stages of life are valuable, not just of youth.’ – Daniel Petrie

‘Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.’ – James Ellroy

‘I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they’ll need to really pay attention to it.’ – Gerry Cooney

‘There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.’ – Peter Straub

‘The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.’ – Eric Allin Cornell

‘Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.’ – Gavin Newsom

‘It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there’s a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures.’ – Jerry Stiller

‘I’m currently working on a Mind Siege for youth.’ – Tim LaHaye

‘Seeing the show is like a visit to the fountain of youth for parents and the children.’ – Cathy Rigby

‘I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they’re about the exuberance of youth. That’s the sort of subliminal ideology.’ – Robert Wyatt

‘The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren’t particularly youth culture.’ – Robert Wyatt

‘My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn’t ever have done in their youth.’ – Robert Wyatt

‘I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.’ – Robert Wyatt

‘There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.’ – Robert Wyatt

‘We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth’s noise.’ – Daisy Berkowitz

‘I’ve experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I am encouraged that the federal government is taking an active role in the Cascade Youth and Family Center.’ – Greg Walden

‘When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth.’ – Joseph Mitchell

‘I think it’s even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses.’ – Anthony Michael Hall

‘One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America’s youth about military service.’ – John M. McHugh

‘Unless we rise to the challenge, instead of American youth being able to live the American dream, the Chinese will fulfill their dream of overtaking America.’ – Mark Kennedy

‘Since the pharmaceuticals don’t make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don’t make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight.’ – Afrika Bambaataa

‘I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We’re switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we’re in the business of transferring emotions to other people.’ – Derek Jacobi

‘I would not say that I was, these days, a ‘student’ of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.’ – Brian Ferneyhough

‘Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America.’ – Felix Bloch

‘I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.’ – Felix Bloch

‘Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.’ – Felix Bloch

‘Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.’ – B. Carroll Reece

‘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

‘Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn’t think I could do anything wrong.’ – Kiefer Sutherland

‘There’s a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.’ – Kiefer Sutherland

‘No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America’s youth.’ – Francis Parker Yockey

‘Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes.’ – Francis Parker Yockey

‘Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.’ – Ruben Hinojosa

‘There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.’ – David O. McKay

‘Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.’ – Ian Hart

‘It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.’ – Martin Lewis Perl

‘I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth.’ – John Thorn

‘The heroes of our youth grow old – ‘the boys of summer in their ruin’, in Dylan Thomas’s verse – yet we seem the same.’ – John Thorn

‘In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.’ – Marc Newson

‘I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.’ – Arsene Wenger

‘I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.’ – Arsene Wenger

‘War is horrible because it strangles youth.’ – Philip Kearny

‘When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories.’ – Ernst Mach

‘Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.’ – James Broughton

‘I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.’ – Vivienne Westwood

‘I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.’ – David Dinkins

‘A lot of them want to come and play for Manchester United. They want to play because Alex has a record of giving youth a chance and we have the history and heritage of Manchester United.’ – David Gill

‘I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world?’ – Kevin Eubanks

‘I work with youth offenders in LA, I’ve heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.’ – Lisa Bonet

‘What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.’ – Lisa Bonet

‘Hollywood embraced me in the late ’80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it’s about corporate mentality, box office, youth.’ – Marlee Matlin

‘There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.’ – Pierre Salinger

‘Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.’ – Kurtis Blow

‘I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.’ – Laurence Housman

‘I used to go with him and I’d sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar.’ – Trevor Horn

‘It is better to waste one’s youth than to do nothing with it at all.’ – Georges Courteline

‘I also meet with city officials, representatives from governors’ offices, really anyone in that sort of position who has shown an interest in youth fitness, to let them know why this sort of program is so important. I give the same message when I speak at conferences.’ – Rafer Johnson

‘Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what’s going on – about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.’ – Olympia Dukakis

‘Not less, but more democracy – that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.’ – Gustav Heinemann

‘Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.’ – Richard Le Gallienne

‘Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between.’ – Gustav Stresemann

‘It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person’s life do they not occur?’ – Knut Hamsun

‘Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth.’ – Knut Hamsun

‘Hold fast to youth and beauty.’ – Elizabeth Arden

‘I don’t like rap that you can’t understand. The youth is so quick and alert.’ – Roy Ayers

‘It’s important, that spirit of youth, and when you’re 16 that can get you kickstarted.’ – Ewan McGregor

‘Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they’re getting older, et cetera.’ – Sela Ward

‘In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.’ – Terence Stamp

‘It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.’ – Cleveland Abbe

‘The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.’ – Sargent Shriver

‘Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There’s three people writing now, and we’ve all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words.’ – Thurston Moore

‘Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song.’ – Thurston Moore

‘Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth.’ – William Banting

‘For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.’ – William Banting

‘These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable.’ – Winifred Holtby

‘From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.’ – Pat Metheny

‘I usually play disenfranchised youth.’ – Robin Tunney

‘Sending our youth to war is wrong.’ – Michael Berryman

‘It’s disturbing at my age to look at a young woman’s destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one’s own destructiveness in youth.’ – Helen Garner

‘During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.’ – Sammy Davis, Jr.

‘In recent years, the choice of drugs on these reservations and throughout my district has been methamphetamines. It has destroyed the rule of law among the reservation people. It is killing our tribal youth in this country.’ – Rick Renzi

‘Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.’ – Steve Buyer

‘There’s only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do.’ – Kim Gordon

‘I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.’ – Shia LaBeouf

‘One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we’d sit down to dinner together as a family, we’d learn about each other. We had something people don’t get today.’ – Paul Prudhomme

‘It was in New York, and I’ve always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did youth theatre together when we were 16 and always had a dream of making a film together. And ten years later, we’ve done it. So it’s great.’ – Rosamund Pike

‘But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques – which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.’ – Parminder Nagra

‘If your audience is young, it’d be youth culture, if your audience is older, it’d be older people, if it were senior citizens, it’d be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.’ – Kurt Loder

‘The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.’ – Felix de Weldon

‘So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it’s a kind of blues element. It’s physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white – everybody.’ – Archie Shepp

‘However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.’ – Julian Clary

‘One of my dreams in life is to do fund-raising for the youth.’ – Picabo Street

‘Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe’s youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.’ – Compay Segundo

‘We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform.’ – Kenneth H. Cooper

‘At the end. First start off and do your youth thing In Hollywood and then go to New York later. But it wound up being later, later than I thought it was going to be.’ – Delta Burke

‘So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I’ve been there. I know what the press would do.’ – Joan Jett

‘I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.’ – Nolan Ryan

‘Early youth is a baffling time.’ – Bruce Catton

‘With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives, but also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message.’ – Adam Rickitt

‘To me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it’s important to the gay youth – who are now setting the agenda – then its important to me.’ – Harvey Fierstein

‘Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.’ – Edvard Munch

‘My youth passed at the time of the country’s reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.’ – Lech Walesa

‘I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it – I was always the one doing the talking.’ – Portia de Rossi

‘What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it’s almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they’re taking it to the hilt.’ – Billie Joe Armstrong

‘We don’t have a major problem right now in our country, and life is normal. Things like unemployment, which the youth are suffering from, and the rate of inflation – these are chronic conditions and we have to solve them.’ – Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

‘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

‘He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.’ – Adolf Hitler

‘Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.’ – Francis Picabia

‘If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.’ – Robert Lowell

‘It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.’ – Peter Ustinov

‘Youth should be a savings bank.’ – Sophie Swetchine

‘Today’s accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.’ – Earl Wilson

‘Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.’ – Djuna Barnes

‘American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver’s license age than at voting age.’ – Marshall McLuhan

‘By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.’ – Marya Mannes

‘My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.’ – Ivy Compton-Burnett

‘A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.’ – Stendhal

‘A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick.’ – Mary Wilson Little

‘Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.’ – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

‘Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.’ – Vita Sackville-West

‘I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.’ – Ben Lindsey

‘Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.’ – Mignon McLaughlin

‘Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.’ – Natalie Clifford Barney

‘Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth… suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.’ – Julie Burchill

‘There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.’ – Mary Wortley Montagu

‘Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects.’ – Lion Feuchtwanger

‘The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.’ – Mason Cooley

‘Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.’ – Mason Cooley

‘The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.’ – Mason Cooley

‘Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.’ – Samuel Richardson

‘I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.’ – Benjamin Spock

‘A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.’ – Wyndham Lewis

‘Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.’ – Samuel Richardson

‘The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal.’ – William Ellery Channing

‘The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.’ – William Lyon Phelps

‘Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.’ – Jane Jacobs

‘The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.’ – Tom DeLay

‘Enthusiasm – a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘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 Bronte

‘Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.’ – Ralph W. Sockman

‘The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.’ – Samuel Butler

‘Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain’t going to accept nothing but a winner.’ – Ice Cube

‘The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract.’ – Peter Hall

‘It’s the youth movement we have. A lot of young guys with a lot of passion. It brings the fun back to the game.’ – Tim Hudson

‘Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth.’ – Bud Selig

‘We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healthy behavior free from binge drinking and other forms of alcohol abuse.’ – Jon Corzine

‘My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don’t make that mistake yourself. Life’s too damn short.’ – Armistead Maupin

‘I was used to playing misled youth, rough-and-tumble guys. It was nice to get back to a big-hearted, warm and gentle soul, a guy who is destined for something a lot larger than he ever expected.’ – Milo Ventimiglia

‘The sun stands for energy and youth, which is what I thought the circus should be about.’ – Guy Laliberte

‘I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.’ – Chiwetel Ejiofor

‘I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.’ – Jason Bateman

‘This is going to sound strange, but I really didn’t think I would pass 30. I don’t know why or whatever, I just didn’t. That’s a very weird thing to say, I’m sorry. I don’t know. Maybe it’s because I was drinking so much as a youth.’ – Kristin Davis

‘Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he’d have me put on a jacket to see a film.’ – Ralph Fiennes

‘I would love to tell you I’ve found the secret to eternal youth. I go to the gym and avoid too many chips. I love to eat, hate to work out, but if you can’t count all your ribs from a distance you’re considered obese.’ – Jason Isaacs

‘I was doing a show at the National Youth Theatre, playing an old man. Before that I had played fat clowns and I thought, ‘If I want to have the career I would like, I am going to have to lose weight.’ I was just starting drama school, and found I was moving around a lot. I also started to eat sensibly. The weight just dropped off.’ – Harry Melling

‘I would like to tell you as the president of the republic, I am not embarrassed to listen to the Youth of my country and to respond to them.’ – Hosni Mubarak

‘Yeah, I’ve had an odd youth, But I wouldn’t know the difference if I’d lived it any other way. And I wouldn’t change any of it because I quite like what I’m doing.’ – Estella Warren

‘When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.’ – Steve Coogan

‘My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.’ – Ross MacDonald

‘I could have probably raised them in L.A. and they would have been great and had so many things at their fingertips and been exposed to so many things. But we travel a lot, so I don’t think that moving out of town is sheltering the girls at all. Maybe protecting them a little bit more, trying to prolong their youth.’ – Jennie Garth

‘I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you’re a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that’s pretty cool.’ – Adam Brody

‘Fashion embraces the weirdos. They’re into that. There are always young people that people in fashion are interested in. You know, youth and vitality and energy – it brings something different.’ – Chloe Sevigny

‘When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.’ – Joely Richardson

‘I am just enjoying my youth but I want to settle down eventually.’ – Chris Evans

‘I am the president of the youth of France.’ – Francois Hollande

‘There is this idea that appealing to youth is the only way forward. But that is no longer the case. Youth is not everything. Now we have all the baby-boomers in their 60s, like me, who are actively engaged in life – we’re not retiring, we’re not just being put out to grass once we hit 60.’ – Julie Walters

‘I’m a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I’m all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.’ – Benedict Cumberbatch

‘I went to an all-girls boarding school for most of my youth.’ – Sienna Miller

‘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

‘I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.’ – Eric Bana

‘I’d auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn’t get a place and it was terrifying.’ – Matthew Macfadyen

‘People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.’ – Charlaine Harris

‘I would very much like to make Westerns. I love Westerns. I’ve worked on many Westerns in my youth, in Spain and here, and I love working on them.’ – John Landis

‘When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that’s kind of a dead-end road. So I think it’s a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.’ – K. D. Lang

‘I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.’ – Carl Lewis

‘I grew up in a sport that didn’t allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth.’ – Cathy Rigby

‘I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy – the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!’ – David Copperfield

‘Football’s about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.’ – Wayne Rooney

‘I wish I had appreciated my youth – I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!’ – Natalie Merchant

‘The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one’s youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten.’ – James Buchan

‘The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.’ – Abdullah II of Jordan

‘The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.’ – Abdullah II of Jordan

‘Team Obama continues to dominate new media, spending far more effort and money than Team Romney in targeted online youth outreach.’ – Jennifer Granholm

”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

‘All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it’s part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.’ – Ani DiFranco

‘I grew up loving TV so much. It was such an integral part of my youth, and I was completely an Emmy geek.’ – Jon Cryer

‘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

‘From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.’ – Steven Spielberg

‘I won the youth vote in Massachusetts and in California. I did very well with it in Ohio.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child… I don’t think that’s why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they’ve never copped to it.’ – Jeff Dunham

‘I’m hardly Hollywood material – they’re interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It’s not a place that’s particularly interested in talent.’ – Juliet Stevenson

‘I think I don’t sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it’s just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.’ – K. D. Lang

‘I was entirely natural and in many ways I have the same attitude now. I don’t mourn the loss of my youth because I believe you should enjoy what you have while you have it.’ – Koo Stark

‘Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you’re young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.’ – Shirley Henderson

‘Well, immediately we announced yesterday or the day before we’re building, with my foundation, a youth tennis and learning center in Austin. I’d like to be hands on with that and not see it periodically.’ – Andy Roddick

‘My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.’ – Tiger Woods

‘I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I’ve no desire to look as though I’m in my 20s.’ – Kim Cattrall

‘Today’s youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn’t take that attitude forward with them.’ – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

‘Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.’ – Jane Fonda

‘I don’t care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together.’ – Rudolf Nureyev

‘The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have… whether you like it or not.’ – Josh McDowell

‘The worship of youth has diminished – perhaps generally – in recent years.’ – Vince Cable

‘I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.’ – David Mamet

‘My first four albums covered the usual youth problems – looking for love in all the wrong places – while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.’ – Joni Mitchell

‘I certainly could’ve gone off track many, many times in my youth.’ – Shania Twain

‘In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.’ – Hilda Solis

‘That’s what I’d like to do on the President’s Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day.’ – Florence Griffith Joyner

‘People equate success with youth. And if you haven’t had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it’s never going to happen. There’s a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I’ve never done that because I think it’s so insignificant.’ – Jennifer Jason Leigh

‘I know I’m representing a group – black, Latin, whatever you want to put me with – and I want to show that they are beautiful the way they are. I think that’s really important for our youth to see.’ – Joan Smalls

‘I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me.’ – Mstislav Rostropovich

‘I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don’t think it solved anything. It only made the situation worse for everyone involved.’ – Michael Gove

‘I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood, ready to pick me up when I fell and support me when I stumbled.’ – Michael Gove

‘I rallied all the youth around me, all the people who liked Compa, but felt like it was dying, going away, being replaced with Zouk. So it became a movement. So, through the years, I’ve played my music with dedication, discipline and originality, and controversy also.’ – Michel Martelly

‘I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.’ – Alexander Payne

‘I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I’ve gotten to a place where I’m very comfortable with who I am.’ – Walton Goggins

‘Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.’ – Jerry Saltz

‘Club culture is always going to be a reflection of youth culture, but I think we’re maybe moving into a time when the club is a place where older people can go, too. And it’s a place people go to connect to themselves, it’s not always about the party. It’s also about letting off steam and expressing yourself and connecting to other people.’ – Robyn

‘A children’s author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.’ – Anthony Horowitz

‘In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor’s Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done.’ – Rashida Jones

‘Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood – all those things feel really true to me.’ – Jason Reitman

‘I spent a lot of my youth working outside in the elements, and I kind of revel in defeating tough weather.’ – Nick Offerman

‘I didn’t have many girlfriends in my youth. I was an active young man, jumping from one girl to the next, but never with anyone for more than three or four months.’ – Vincent Cassel

‘You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.’ – Stephen Daldry

‘I’m not a big crime reader, but I’m reading Michael Connelly’s ‘The Reversal.’ I’m going back to his novels. I’m also reading Keith Richards’ ‘Life.’ I’m always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late ’60s and early ’70s and the youth culture becoming an industry.’ – Jo Nesbo

‘I think it’s natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.’ – David Mitchell

‘I spent all my youth with horses.’ – Guillaume Canet

‘America is obsessed with youth. We all want to look young forever, and vampires do. They are caught in their prime, if that’s when they’ve been turned. And they’ll be that way forever.’ – Charlaine Harris

‘While many applauded Oprah for opening her heart to young girls in South Africa, some criticized her for not investing in the youth of America.’ – Kitty Kelley

‘I’ve spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change.’ – Chris Messina

‘I grew up in Austria, and for me real comfort food is Wiener Schnitzel. Wiener Schnitzel and mashed potatoes because it reminds me of my youth… It reminds me when I grow up and it feels very comforting.’ – Wolfgang Puck

‘There’s a feeling of immortality you have in youth. You just don’t see the dangers around you, or, if you do, maybe you’re even excited by them.’ – Michelle Forbes

‘Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.’ – Octavia Spencer

‘I think there’s a level of ignorance, when, in the callowness of youth, you imagine that you are inventing the world for the first time. You imagine that your parents don’t know what it feels like to fall in love.’ – Mira Nair

‘The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don’t like adolescents – even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.’ – Ayelet Waldman

‘Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous?’ – Ayelet Waldman

‘I sat down in 1989 and I made up my mind at that point that I was going to spend the rest of my life assisting women and youth to gain social and political empowerment through business and education. I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn’t go to school.’ – Joyce Banda

‘I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth.’ – Ricky Skaggs

‘Now that Obama’s president, it changes inner-city youths. They can now not just dream to be Lil Waynes and 50 Cents, but they can now dream to be Obamas.’ – will.i.am

‘You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.’ – will.i.am

‘To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.’ – Jon Landau

‘You’ve got to have a young element in a show. Any project needs youth and dynamism as well old codgerdom and experience.’ – Tim Rice

‘I have found things that I could have done better in ‘The Woman Warrior.’ But then I thought: Let the work of one’s youth just stand.’ – Maxine Hong Kingston

‘Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.’ – Idris Elba

‘I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at a piece of nonfiction, a personal memoir of youth, but over the next several weeks, without intending it, the work began evolving into what has become ‘Tomcat in Love.” – Tim O’Brien

‘I enjoyed my upbringing, my siblings did, we’re polite, we’re respectful, but at the end of the day we’re young, we like to have fun. But now, more so than ever, the youth has been vilified to the point where it feels like you can’t enjoy being young any more, you just have to sit it out and wait until you get old.’ – Tinie Tempah

‘I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things that happened when I finished ‘Drown’ was that I got busy living. I’d never travelled, I’d never seen anything. So I did as much travelling as my job teaching would allow.’ – Junot Diaz

‘Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin’ Donuts.’ – Eli Roth

‘My mum came from nothing and didn’t have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that.’ – Paloma Faith

‘The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today’s LGBTQ youth.’ – Cheyenne Jackson

‘A huge part of youth is how you behave: I’m always looking for fun and anything that makes me feel alive – that in itself keeps me feeling young.’ – Martine McCutcheon

‘I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society.’ – Linton Kwesi Johnson

‘We’re constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was associated with freedom, vitality, and eternal youth.’ – Christopher McDougall

‘Public swimming pools, recreation centers, summer reading programs, youth jobs programs – they are all shutting their doors. And they are all facilities and programs relied on most heavily by low-income children.’ – Darell Hammond

‘Through SCP Auctions, the Garvey family will also continue to share our great love for baseball by donating time and dollars to youth baseball programs.’ – Steve Garvey

‘My parents wanted me to be a Baptist minister. I was a youth minister in my church when I was still in college. And I was in a lot of theater in high school, and at Northwestern.’ – Dick Gephardt

‘You gotta bear in mind, the youth – and this is just in Britain alone – have nowhere to go in the evenings. They’ve closed all the social centers. There’s not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on.’ – John Lydon

‘No other youth group like the Scouts has trained so many future leaders while at the same time being a nature organization with its outdoor focus.’ – Richard Louv

‘If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.’ – Tara Brach

‘If you look not just at the Arab Spring, but at what I call the ‘Youth Spring’ that has started in Europe, young people are starting to find a voice, and they are not looking to the traditional media to reflect that.’ – Shane Smith

‘Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It’s time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.’ – Dale Archer

‘Yeah, I probably got in too much trouble as a youth to be a politician.’ – Michael Kelly

‘I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read ‘wildly,’ and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.’ – Michel Onfray

‘There is no more effective way to radicalize American Muslim youth than for political leaders to make public displays of prejudice against all Muslims. Suspicion will undermine their sense of identification with America and alienate some from both the culture and from politics.’ – Miroslav Volf

‘High and eternal things have little weight with the youth.’ – Ellen G. White

‘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

‘I was always the tallest girl in my class, and it made me have really bad posture because I wanted to seem shorter than I really was. It really reflected how I felt about myself. I spent most of my youth in school feeling really insecure about the way I looked because I was different.’ – Katherine Webb

‘Looking at the Batman pages is like revisiting my youth. My first seven years in New York were the first seven years of Batman itself. While my time on Batman was important and exciting and notable considering the characters that came out of it, it was really just the start of my life.’ – Jerry Robinson

‘The youth are very important to me, they’re the next generation, but I want to instill in kids, even in playing, that it’s never too late and there’s no right or wrong way to do anything.’ – Sheila E.

‘I love talking to the youth and helping them as much as I can or encouraging them, if I can help them at all.’ – Sheila E.

‘I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That’s like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.’ – Zooey Deschanel

‘Obviously I’m not a role model for impressionable youth.’ – Sam Kinison

‘As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways. Think about it – most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama’s 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values – hope and change.’ – Adam Braun

‘Who I was was not acceptable to black L.A. youth: the way I spoke and my sense of humor. Everybody else had relaxers and pressed hair. I wore my hair in an Afro puff. Nappy. The way I dressed. It was all about name brands at the time in L.A. I had no idea. All those things, I failed miserably at.’ – Issa Rae

‘We would like to have every middle and high school become a place where there will be lots of examples of youth competence and confidence.’ – Bill Drayton

‘As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don’t want to die. It’s like, ‘Well, too bad, we do.” – Alan Ball

‘We can’t allow, in my perception, our traditions, which in the Bible are really looked down upon, to stop, literally, the potential of the gospel reaching the youth of America.’ – Stephen Baldwin

‘Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.’ – Nathaniel Philbrick

‘I’ve been trying to challenge myself to be more explicit. I’ve always liked punk rock and Sonic Youth. I make that music privately, but I’ve never released it.’ – Sufjan Stevens

‘It’s like a rugby team. If you’re picking for the World Cup final, you’re picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that balance and that mix. I think that, especially, goes for the monarchy as well.’ – Prince William

‘Youth is seen as everything. You don’t know anything when you’re young. It’s great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I’m increasingly grateful for every day.’ – Val Kilmer

‘Since the age of four, I’ve been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.’ – Adora Svitak

‘Youth is a lifestyle; it’s not a blessing from God. If we treat our bodies as if they are not the most precious things we possess, then obviously we will show wear and tear. We’re like a good pair of jeans. If we take care of them, they’ll remain classic forever, but if we batter and abuse them they’ll look like tattered old rags.’ – Akshay Kumar

‘As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.’ – Thelma Golden

‘We’ve been using ‘rejuvenate,’ meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.’ – Erin McKean

‘Why does crime happen? Well, you might say that it’s because youths don’t have jobs. Or you might say that’s because the doors of our buildings are not fortified enough. Given some limited funds to spend, you can either create yet another national employment program or you can equip houses with even better cameras, sensors, and locks.’ – Evgeny Morozov

‘Satan knows that youth is the springtime of life when all things are new and young people are most vulnerable.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘I think it’s a bit silly to brand the Internet as the ‘downfall of youth.” – Ernest Cline

‘The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.’ – Martin Filler

‘I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There is true caring, sharing, and refreshingly naive hope.’ – Elayne Boosler

‘The first time I came to London on my own, I was 15. I was absolutely oblivious to so many things. I had no expectations, no fears. I just came to do a National Youth Theatre season one summer. It was just brilliant.’ – Gina McKee

‘Vampires are so sexy and powerful – they’re so otherworldly; they have eternal life and youth.’ – Jessica Clark

‘I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more sociable. But the whole thing was quite sore; it really hurt me trying to get into drama school. It was a world I knew nothing about – it was very middle class; all that usual stuff. But I was young, determined, and I just went for it.’ – Anne-Marie Duff

‘When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, ‘I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.’ I wouldn’t have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn’t a clever man.’ – David Suchet

‘I worked at a daycare for a couple of years going through high school and college. I did youth sports camps. I ran all the camps through my college.’ – Derek Theler

‘My wife and I have never been able to have kids of our own. Physically, it’s impossible. The doctor checked. So we tend to unofficially adopt lots of twenty-somethings. I have a real soft spot in my heart for youth.’ – Doug Jones

‘I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a lot of time outdoors. I only vaguely realized that science was a little more than natural history, but by then I was hooked.’ – Matt Ridley

‘I wanted to leave home, and I didn’t know where I was going or what I was going to do or what would happen. That’s youth, though. Being fixated on things. I was fixated on being a writer.’ – James Avery

‘Youth is beautiful.’ – Indira Varma

‘I created a successful outdoor youth festival – the Liverd festival – against all good advice. It was a great way to explore and investigate social sculptures. Having that as my kind of studio, outside of a museum or precious white-cube gallery, that was a kind of education.’ – Natalie Jeremijenko

‘My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent… I don’t think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.’ – Nicholas A. Christakis

‘Youth is incredible because you really do feel invincible.’ – Paul Stanley

‘I think the new generations in America, the America’s youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don’t want to hear any more about it.’ – Alexander Haig

‘I’m a little left of center, for sure, with Angels & Airwaves. But even when I get really weird, it’s not that weird. It’s not like some obscure Sonic Youth record or something. We don’t take it quite that far. But what we do like are crescendos, and we do like when a song catches you off guard and it gives you the chills up and down your arms.’ – Tom DeLonge

‘I’ve been into Sonic Youth since junior high school. I think I kind of have ADD, so it’s good music for ADD because it just throws you in different directions all the time. I really like Kim Gordon’s voice and Thurston Moore’s voice, and I like the guitars going off on tangents.’ – Norman Reedus

‘I have my loyalty to the team of my youth. Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. The team that I grew up with was constantly the underdog but managed to prevail.’ – Bill de Blasio

‘I don’t even think places like the National Youth Theatre (NYT) are necessarily about wanting to be an actor when you grow up. They’re about meeting people from different backgrounds and different religions and different cultures, and mixing with people that you wouldn’t ordinarily meet.’ – Ashley Jensen

‘I spent most of my youth in Manchester, in clubs and football grounds and the Manchester Apollo.’ – John Simm

‘I went to church as a kid, but it was as much a social thing as anything going to the youth group with the other kids and whatnot. It wasn’t until I got out of college that I got on my own religious trip and started finding other things out there as well as philosophies. I’ve kinda been on my own spiritual path since then.’ – Bailey Chase

‘I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women’s empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.’ – Queen Rania of Jordan

‘Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it’s a mistake and to enjoy my youth while I had it.’ – Mark Gatiss

‘I was obsessed with work in my youth. It’s why I didn’t get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn’t have kids.’ – Pam Ferris

‘I was going to become a youth worker because I do voluntary work with the kids in the little village where I live. I make little films with them and stuff when I’m not working. I thought, I’ll pack it in then, and go and do something I love doing, and get a regular job because I’ve got two kids and a mortgage.’ – Stephen Graham

‘I was 10, and I played Jim Hawkins in ‘Treasure Island’ at school, and this great Liverpudlian actor called Andrew Schofield – he was Johnny Rotten in ‘Sid And Nancy’ – came to watch it, and he had a word with my mum and dad afterwards and told them I should have a go at the Everyman youth theatre. I’ve never looked back.’ – Stephen Graham

‘I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once ‘The Great Indian Laughter Challenge’ was launched, a regional channel in Punjab started a program based on that. I participated in it and emerged as the winner.’ – Kapil Sharma

‘I don’t take for granted all the blessings that I have, and as soon as I heard about Computers for Youth, I really wanted to be involved. Anyone who knows me knows how much time I spend on computers. I’m a computer addict. Every young person deserves to have a computer in his or her home.’ – Bow Wow

‘My knowledge and thirst for knowledge has no expiration date… It goes until I’m dead. I will be learning and studying from youth, as well as people older than me… Having degrees as a person of color in this country is the one thing that can’t nobody take away from me.’ – Ruben Santiago-Hudson

‘The media, of course, loves to make claims about the fountain of youth. Don’t believe it. No one has it. But we’re getting close.’ – Michio Kaku

‘I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing research, I would write books that I would have liked to have read as a child. So whenever I write, I imagine myself, as a youth, reading my books, being thrilled by the incredible advances being made in physics and science.’ – Michio Kaku

‘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

‘It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, ‘If I don’t succeed, I’ll go back to school and study.” – Olivia Wilde

‘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

‘What you want to worship above youth, I think, is beauty, and beauty is so beyond just appearances after a while. Because you can be with someone who’s good-looking; if they open their mouths and they’re an idiot, then they cease to be beautiful very quickly.’ – Patton Oswalt

‘We’re rewarding either the reality or the appearance of youth, which is why you have all these people in their fifties trying to act like they’re seventeen. You know, it’s great to be young. Be young. By all means, be young. But always remember that youth is also kinda dumb, and doesn’t know a lot yet.’ – Patton Oswalt

‘The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You’re so full of insecurities when you’re young. ‘Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?’ You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.’ – Cherie Lunghi

‘Instead of locking people up and throwing away the key, it’s important to invest in them and show them another way – show them what they can do, instead of telling them what they can’t do. Because by investing in youth, we’re investing into the future of this great nation of the United States of America.’ – Q’orianka Kilcher

‘I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn’t get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then… the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.’ – Monte Irvin

‘Hordes of young girls never copied my hairdos or the way I talk or the way I dress. I have, therefore, never had to go through the stress of perpetuating an image that’s often the equivalent of one particular song that forever freezes a precise moment of one’s youth.’ – Simone Signoret

‘The younger generation is essentially idealistic. This applies to the Iranian youth as well. In addition, the youth in Iran face certain difficulties… the Iranian youth need more freedom. They are struggling for more freedom and democracy. This commands great respect.’ – Shirin Ebadi

‘I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.’ – Emma Stone

‘I’m excited to create more awareness about the importance of giving the youth of America a choice. There’s a 24-hour music channel. There’s a 24-hour comedy channel. I believe there’s a 24-hour gay channel coming. Why isn’t there a 24-hour Christian channel that’s edgy and hip and cool and new and different, like all that other stuff?’ – Stephen Baldwin

‘Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture. Eventually heavy metal culture, rap culture, electronica – they’ll look for it and then market it back to kids at the mall.’ – Douglas Rushkoff

‘We look at the African-American community, for a long time those of us who be considered strong – black men – for whatever reason, haven’t done a good job of taking care of the weak. And we were doing things that render taking care of our youth and taking care of our women and our families impossible, when our lives are taken.’ – Ryan Coogler

‘I think it is very important to build the moral fibre of the youth. Moral education should be part of the curriculum, and I will work towards introducing that.’ – Pallam Raju

‘The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training.’ – Pallam Raju

‘When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by his youth and energy and promise and were especially hopeful that he might move the country in a new direction on civil rights.’ – Marian Wright Edelman

‘I grew up in the church, and I always kind of knew Bible stories and knew the Sunday school answers, but when I was a freshman in high school I joined youth group, and that’s when I started to see radical love; that’s when I started to see what Christian community is supposed to look like and what fellowship is supposed to look like.’ – Jeremy Lin

‘Every place has its own punk flavor, but they all borrowed ideas from SoCal. It’s still a vibrant scene creeping into every crevasse of youth culture. When you hear grunge, you think of the ’90s, but when you hear L.A. punk, it’s timeless.’ – Greg Graffin

‘Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal black youth we are not used to hearing from on such topics.’ – Michael Eric Dyson

‘By denying its musical and artistic merit, hip hop’s critics get to have it both ways: they can deny the legitimate artistic standing of rap while seizing on its pervasive influence as an art form to prove what a terrible effect it has on youth.’ – Michael Eric Dyson

‘Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs and Russell Simmons have made millions from their clothing lines.’ – Michael Eric Dyson

‘Obviously, Jay-Z is one of the greatest entertainers of the world today. Not only is he a remarkable rhetorical genius, he’s also a man of deep sympathy and empathy for those who are lost and vulnerable, but especially under-educated youth of all cultures and stripes.’ – Michael Eric Dyson

‘As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.’ – Mark Haddon

‘I’m very, very involved in charities involving youth.’ – Bea Arthur

‘With aging comes physical and emotional challenge. We cannot seem to get as much done in an hour as we did in youth. And it is harder to be patient with others, and they seem more demanding.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘Life eternal is to live in unity, in families, with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Eternal life is only possible through the keys of the priesthood of God, which were restored through the Prophet Joseph Smith. Holding that eternal goal before the youth you lead is as great a gift as you could give them.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it’s like they almost become irrelevant.’ – Margaret Cho

‘The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make ‘big miracles’ happen.’ – Adora Svitak

‘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

‘Every pastor, youth pastor, and every parent is in competition with the Internet and the information it is spreading. Most young people don’t get their news from CNN or CBS; they get it from bloggers.’ – Josh McDowell

‘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

‘I’ve never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.’ – Francesca Annis

‘Have you seen some of the women – and the men – in Los Angeles? They pay surgeons to make them look completely different in the hope of finding their youth. But youth comes from within. If you have a young attitude, then that can show in your face, the way you walk and move.’ – Kim Cattrall

‘Whatever my situation is, I want to show that I’m not perfect, and perfect isn’t real. The youth need to know that, especially.’ – Keke Palmer

‘I saw my first two Broadway shows when I was 4 years old, ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ and after both of them I came home and reenacted the entirety of the shows on my living room table for my family and friends. I started doing that after every show I saw until I actually did my first youth production when I was 5.’ – Max Schneider

‘Things don’t have to come to you in your youth. It’s fine for them to come to you when you get older. That’s a motto in my household.’ – Miranda Hart

‘It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.’ – Dick Cavett

‘In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.’ – Dick Cavett

‘Since I’m in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, ‘Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?” – Hill Harper

‘Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them – you have to be like this or like that.’ – Raf Simons

‘I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my own material would be incredible.’ – Laura Mvula

‘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

‘So many times, people want you to stay the way you were, be as you were before because they want to encapsulate you in a time so they can remember their youth. But you’re here to continually push forward and move forward. That’s where I’m at – I just want to always surprise people.’ – Maxwell

‘Global sports tournaments have a range of benefits that go far beyond the games themselves. They can transform the image of a country or a region. They bring people together and reveal new possibilities to a nation’s youth.’ – Richard Attias

‘Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.’ – Kofi Annan

‘I think it’s just really important for youth today to have a passion and pursue something seriously.’ – Kerri Strug

‘I would say there’s always a movement of music and fashion in youth culture – every decade inspires the new one.’ – Maripol

‘I’m very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.’ – Samantha Bond

‘Something like ‘Sex And The City’ was insulting – women all clawing on to their youth when there’s such ripe territory in honestly exploring women’s lives as they get older.’ – Samantha Bond

‘I’m interested in youth culture – when your parents are running your life, but you think you’re the big man – but I’m not trying to make a statement.’ – Chris Lilley

‘There’s no way I would have got to see so much of the world, with my humble background, without modelling. We were penniless and hungry for most of my youth. I washed the sheets in the bathtub in my bedroom and hung them out of the window on the clothes line, which in winter was difficult as the sheets would freeze and get stuck to the line.’ – Carmen Dell’Orefice

‘Certainly I was a very religious child, a deeply weird and very emotional child, an only child with lots of imaginary friends and a very active imagination. I loved Sunday school and Bible camp and all that. I had my own white Bible with Jesus’ words printed in red in the text; I even spoke at youth revivals.’ – Lee Smith

‘In 1941, the BBC was setting up local, low-powered transmitters that were switched off if there was an air raid so they couldn’t be used by German planes to navigate. As a ‘youth in training,’ my job was to switch the transmitter on in the mornings and off at night, and to check that it, and the feeder land lines, were working.’ – Michael Bond

‘A lot of what I experienced growing up in the U.S.S.R. and coming to the U.S. as an immigrant actually reflects itself in Whatsapp. Experiences from our youth shape what we do later in life.’ – Jan Koum

‘In real life you are doomed if you believe in youth and money, but not here in Hollywood. Nothing is what it seems.’ – Amanda Eliasch

‘South Africa is the only place in the Southern hemisphere where Halloween is really catching on. They have a lot of sporting events that have made it more popular there. They have motocross and rave celebrations, and they’re embracing it as a youth culture thing.’ – Lisa Morton

‘I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth – artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me.’ – Nicholas Haslam

‘Youths write me and tell me that their band will go nowhere because of all the bad bands in the world. I tell them there has always been awful music and that no great band ever wasted any time complaining, they just got it done. Their ropey ranting is just a way to get out of the hard work of making music that will do some lasting damage.’ – Henry Rollins

‘Because of my intense hopes for the youth of China, I feel very keenly my responsibility for their future success or failure. The fate of China lies in their hands. The responsibility for organizing and training them to become worthy citizens of China, able to undertake the tasks of Resistance and Reconstruction, is mine; I cannot evade it.’ – Chiang Kai-shek

‘There’s just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it’s that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you’re younger, that you can’t get away with when you’re older.’ – Joe Flaherty

‘Literature – Eastern and Western – abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.’ – F. Sionil Jose

‘Fairy tales were important to me. Aren’t they for any kid? My sister says I spent a good five years of my youth convinced I would grow up to be a princess.’ – Susannah Grant

‘I applaud President Obama for launching his ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ initiative that is aimed to empower our youth to achieve success.’ – Charles B. Rangel

‘For me, Gothic is something from my youth, when I had a heavy metal phase.’ – Ann Demeulemeester

‘I never want to sound preachy about youth and feminism, but I feel like there aren’t enough young people coming out about their concerns and opinions.’ – Eden Sher

‘I think you are taken more seriously as a young adult when you are on a film set and you are doing a job and people expect something from you. Is that losing my youth? Not at all. I had a fantastic childhood.’ – Sarah Bolger

‘I’m certainly not surprised by the passion of the youth for our myths. Mythology is almost a part of an Indian’s DNA.’ – Amish Tripathi

‘The youth in India tend to be rebellious, as with everywhere else, and that makes Shiva exciting. He has the rebellious qualities that the youths like.’ – Amish Tripathi

‘Dick Clark’s ‘American Bandstand’ spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage style that transcended the regional boundaries of our country and united a youth culture that eventually spread its message throughout the entire world.’ – John Oates

‘At Walmart, we recognize the need to support the development of our nation’s youth.’ – Sylvia Mathews Burwell

‘My favorite Galaxie 500 album is the first one, ‘Today,’ recorded in three days at Noise New York and produced by Kramer. It contains my favorite Galaxie 500 songs: ‘Temperature’s Rising,’ ‘Tugboat,’ and our interpretation of Jonathan Richman’s ‘Don’t Let Our Youth Go to Waste.” – Dean Wareham

‘Maybe it’s good to be traumatized in your youth, to make you think differently and step outside the box. Anybody can be comfortable, but if you get your world rocked, shaken as it were, then maybe it causes you to really go to a whole other level in a different way.’ – Charlie Trotter

‘America is tough for rock music. Rock n’ roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it’s not so much anymore. It’s hip-hop and stuff.’ – Taylor Hawkins

‘My father is an expatriate American; he fell in love with New Zealand in his youth and never went home.’ – Eleanor Catton

‘Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people’s physical fitness and mental prowess.’ – Nita Ambani

‘I grew very skeptical of certain kind of Jewish separatism in my youth. I mean, I saw the Jewish community was always with each other; they didn’t trust anybody outside. You’d bring someone home, and the first question was, ‘Are they Jewish, are they not Jewish?” – Judith Butler

‘Like John Kennedy in 1960, Obama combines youth, vigor, and good looks with the promise of political change. Like Kennedy, he grew up in unusual circumstances that distance him from ordinary American life.’ – Virginia Postrel

‘The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.’ – Wadah Khanfar

‘I did a show called ‘Freaks and Geeks’ when I was very young. And I had the naivete and arrogance of youth. You know, I really assumed that when the show got cancelled, like, oh, it doesn’t matter, you just keep rolling, you know. I’m about to be the biggest star of the world. And then I was met with five years of unemployment.’ – Jason Segel

‘Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘We’ve always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I’m fascinated by why we do that.’ – Drew Goddard

‘I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went to a military academy for high school in Wisconsin. Then I went to college, on a basketball scholarship to a small school in Iowa, so I’m like Mr. Midwest.’ – Adam Rapp

‘The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.’ – Najib Razak

‘There stand out in my life many incidents in my youth, of wonderful inspiration and power through men preaching the gospel in the spirit of testimony and prayer.’ – Heber J. Grant

‘Arab youth are taught to wonder, ‘Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation of Israel?” – Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

‘In army, I went to Kashmir and did well, which was a challenge. In sports, I went to Olympics at a time when no one believed that we can actually win. Coming into politics was also a challenge as I wanted to push the youth to achieve gold in various fields of life.’ – Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

‘I would say that my role model, as far as just somebody leading by example, which to me is what a great youth counselor does – they are there to talk to and lead by example – would be my mom, but she wasn’t a youth counselor. She was a teacher, and she is a good person and definitely one of the biggest influences in my life.’ – Carrie Underwood

‘We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.’ – Arnon Goldfinger

‘It’s not the same thing to make a work – a film, a book, a play – about youth as it is to make one about old age.’ – Alejandro Jodorowsky

‘I remember playing on pretty much an all-minority youth team and going to some of the tournaments north of Cincinnati and not being able to stay with host families where all the other teams were staying with host families.’ – Barry Larkin

‘Youth is so exciting. It’ll take over. I don’t want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the end.’ – Nicolas Roeg

‘We can’t get our youth back.’ – Nicolas Roeg

‘Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company, and later, my degree course, all helped form my love of telling stories and directing.’ – Justin Chadwick

‘I think my films kind of walk this line that I’m proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.’ – J. C. Chandor

‘When my body and face were perfect as far as youth, I wasn’t happy.’ – Jennifer Grey

‘I’ve achieved ‘the American dream.’ I feel it’s my duty to help others achieve their vision, too – especially the youth.’ – Joe Frazier

‘I was very fortunate that a teacher saw that I read a lot and got bored very easily and had a lot of energy, so she said, ‘You’ve got to go to this youth theater.’ I joined Manchester Youth Theatre when I was really young, and I just loved putting on and being involved in plays and telling stories.’ – Justin Chadwick

‘Acting aggressively will allow our youth to aspire for better-paid jobs and find alternatives to criminality.’ – Enrique Pena Nieto

‘I used to play a lot of foreign women in my youth because I was prettier then. I would go for interviews, and directors would look at these sultry, exotic looks, hear this clipped accent and think the two don’t go together. So they would give me a foreign accent.’ – Kate O’Mara

‘I like being able to see an innocence in people. I see a lot of beauty in youth. Young people are in progress. Their faces and bodies and minds are constantly changing. It’s exciting to capture that on film.’ – Bernardo Bertolucci

‘I’m not sure why there’s this anger in the youth, but we need to talk about it. Kids need to get help if they need help, and bullies need to be helped as well.’ – Crystal Bowersox

‘I had a very nice, cozy childhood. I did lots of plays at school and worked with the National Youth Theatre as a teenager.’ – Lucy Punch

‘Somewhere in my callow, misspent youth, I was smart enough to marry my best friend.’ – Rob Lowe

‘I think how Chicago plays a role in my life – it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.’ – Kaskade

‘I was a Catholic youth minister for eight years… I’m not Catholic anymore. The church is too misogynistic.’ – Cindy Sheehan

‘I suppose, to be fair, I don’t miss the energy of youth very much – because I was never fit. So it doesn’t matter not being able to walk miles, striding the countryside, taking deep breaths and enjoying the scenery. That was never on my agenda.’ – Maeve Binchy

‘There are some really good experiments with the youth offending service, joining up youth offending teams with the youth justice board, and good local authority and primary care trusts working together.’ – David Blunkett

‘I’m not quite as buoyant as I was in my youth.’ – Malcolm McDowell

‘I don’t think that youth should be glorified.’ – Andie MacDowell

‘Going home and just seeing what a mess youth baseball was was an eye-opener. I just want to make it a better game.’ – Roy Halladay

‘I never really thought of myself as a musician. I’m not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way, it was an extension of Warhol. Instead of making criticism about popular culture, as a lot of artists do, I worked within it to do something.’ – Kim Gordon

‘I think that certainly, whenever you have a new band, the first record always has a certain energy to it before you know what you’re doing. I think some of the early Sonic Youth stuff was maybe like that.’ – Kim Gordon

‘I can’t think about whether I’ll disappoint Sonic Youth fans. It’s not like I want people to be disappointed, but I just can’t control that.’ – Kim Gordon

‘In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative – of a moment in history, a social class… for instance, I wanted to make the boy in ‘A Boy’s Own Story’ more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.’ – Edmund White

‘I think I feel my best – I really feel the fountain of youth is inside, not out – when I’m just surrounded with love, when I’m with my family and we’re all having a wonderful time together. There’s nothing greater than your family surrounding you.’ – Jaclyn Smith

‘I think there’s a notion in our society, and it may be valid, that people aren’t as funny when they get older. It’s a stigma still attached to the rebelliousness of youth.’ – Phil Hartman

‘Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.’ – Patrice Motsepe

‘Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can’t ignore them.’ – Laura Dekker

‘I spent my entire Irish Catholic youth in a constant state of guilt over imaginary sins. I learned that nothing is a sin as long as you don’t take pleasure from it.’ – Terry Wogan

‘My father superintended the English part of my education, and to his care I am indebted for anything valuable which I may have acquired in my youth. He was my only intelligent companion, and was both a watchful parent and an affectionate friend.’ – John Marshall

‘I just love performing so much, and I threw myself into every musical theater production that was going in my home town and at school. And then, I went to the National Youth Music Theatre, which was really a galvanizing experience for me when I was 17.’ – Gugu Mbatha-Raw

‘It’s my job, first and foremost, to take care of the football. Guys work their tails off. That’s Football 101. From the time you play youth ball to high school, college, pro, every level, that’s the starting point for every quarterback. You have to take care of the ball.’ – Scott Tolzien

‘In Greenville, we were blessed to have lots of youth arts programs. I changed middle schools to go to an arts middle school. Then, when high school came, I went to normal high school for a little while before auditioning for the Governor’s School for Arts and Humanities.’ – Danielle Brooks

‘The music that was popular in your youth seems to be the music you recall most vividly – and most nostalgically – for the rest of your life. But so is the music that was popular in your parents’ youth.’ – Robin Marantz Henig

‘I’m always made a little uncomfortable by studies that assert that Millennials are the most narcissistic generation in history. To me, being young has always meant being self-absorbed; in many ways, that’s what youth is for.’ – Robin Marantz Henig

‘I have been aware since my youth that I am a Hebrew through my mother, and that is something that has played a subtle but important role in my development.’ – Amar’e Stoudemire

‘When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.’ – Martin Freeman

‘It would be better if only the old men fought the wars. Every country is the country of youth. When its youth dies, it dies with them.’ – Jean Giraudoux

‘I loved my time growing up in Northern Ireland doing youth drama, that is where it all began for me.’ – James Nesbitt

‘In teaching, regard must be had to the faculties possessed by the pupil. In childhood, memory; in youth, the understanding; in mature life, the reason is the predominating faculty.’ – Joseph P. Bradley

‘Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it’s free to everyone.’ – S. Jay Olshansky

‘When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children’s public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group.’ – Adam Hamilton

‘In 1996, Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’ was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a ‘prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction’ act. Apparently, a young female character disguised as a boy was a danger to the youth of Merrimack, New Hampshire.’ – Richard LaGravenese

‘What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.’ – E. F. Benson

‘I grew up in the ’90s, so I’ve definitely resurrected many looks from my youth lately, including overalls, jelly shoes, and, of course, Doc Martens.’ – Devin Kelley

‘Athletics and physical activity are important parts of youth development, in my experience and view.’ – Chris Gabrieli

‘I haven’t done any ‘Fringe’ shows since I was about 17. Then I performed with my youth theatre in a show where we all had this old-fashioned make-up on and giggled through our lines.’ – Neve McIntosh

”James and the Giant Peach’ magnificently starts out Dahl’s career as a blithe and droll Bad Uncle corrupter and affirmer of youth. Its influence can be subsequently traced down the decades in everything from Maurice Sendak to Lemony Snicket to J. K. Rowling.’ – Paul Di Filippo

‘I was actually under a lot of heaviness when I was younger. I thought of myself as an old soul. I was very obsessed with death. Basically, I didn’t really have a youth – I sublimated all that into my identity and my music.’ – Ariel Pink

‘Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled our screens, and in consequence, England seemed to matter in a way that our world didn’t.’ – Richard Flanagan

‘The ideal of an all-sided education for youth had always been close to my heart. I saw clearly the arid results of ordinary instruction, aimed only at the development of body and intellect.’ – Paramahansa Yogananda

‘If I go see a band, and they play, like, zero from any of their old albums, I’m very happy about that. I do not want to see the bands of my youth playing the songs of my youth. I hate that.’ – John Darnielle

‘I think youth will always be connected to the strongest music at the time because… I don’t want to use the word ‘tribal,’ but there was this sort of familial affiliation that people would feel with the music they were listening to.’ – John Darnielle

‘In our youths, many of us suspected that being tied down to a partner and family might constrain us. But after 40, even that landscape starts to shift. Many singletons turn inward and start longing for the things so many of us longed to be free of in our 20s.’ – Sandra Tsing Loh

‘The youth movement is aware that old visions can not take Egypt into the future.’ – Ahmed Zewail

‘That’s the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.’ – Patrick Modiano

‘My entire youth has been Nasty Gal. My entire future is Nasty Gal.’ – Sophia Amoruso

‘The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.’ – N. R. Narayana Murthy

‘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

‘I survived many a youth hostel bunk room reading Tolstoy by flashlight.’ – Maria Semple

‘Beauty and youth can stay inside, but it doesn’t outside.’ – Rene Russo

‘I understand that there’s a certain energy in youth, no question, in terms of pursuing jobs. But there is wisdom in age. It’s too bad that the two can’t come together because I do think that people are dropped from what they’re really good at too soon.’ – Rene Russo

‘If I have any complaints about my youth… one is that many well-meaning adults lied to me. Not spiteful lies with malicious intent but lies designed to prevent emotional and psychological pain – lies told by the people who cared about me most: my parents, teachers, relatives.’ – Chris Crutcher

‘At 18, I moved to L.A. with my heavy metal band Avant Garde, which was very much influenced by Metallica. At 19, I got a job at Tower Records, and everything started to change very quickly. I started listening to the Velvet Underground, Pixies, early Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and also earlier music like the Beatles.’ – Rivers Cuomo

‘I got into music, I was in a band, I was at art school. I was quite trendy, although I’d hate to meet myself. The over-preening, the pretentiousness, the arrogance of youth! I think, ‘Oh, that guy was so full of himself.” – Peter Capaldi

‘I took up drama and did so much extracurricular work, like the National Youth Theatre and Guildhall’s Saturday school. Acting is where I felt most comfortable and how I wanted to express myself.’ – Douglas Booth

‘I tried to get into the National Youth Theatre and didn’t, and I tried to get into drama school and didn’t, and then I went to university and was really delighted that I went there. I think having the word ‘no’ can be quite creative.’ – Tamsin Greig

‘By forbidding Jews to destroy their hair, the Bible warns them away from seeking the siren song of eternal youth. By encouraging Jews to grow beards, it reminds them that they will not be young forever, that they must prepare the ground for those who come after, just as their fathers did for them.’ – Meir Soloveichik

‘Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault.’ – Pamela Sargent

‘Films have always been youth oriented.’ – Dina Merrill

‘It’s every manager’s dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That’s why I started a youth scheme.’ – Matt Busby

‘I’m a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It’s certainly the most miserable state to be in but it’s also tremendously gratifying, really – rage feels justified.’ – Deborah Eisenberg

‘It’s not that I’m apolitical… In my youth, I was a freelance political speechwriter, which taught me a lot about writing fiction, I must add.’ – Susan Isaacs

‘In August 1914, my father was called to war and then taken prisoner. He died in captivity in Germany on March 27, 1915. My youth – indeed, my entire life – was deeply marked by this, directly and indirectly.’ – Maurice Allais

‘I was one of those kids, inner-city youth and finding my way. I made it. I made a success out of myself, surprisingly.’ – CeeLo Green

‘If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then, I must say, there is only one way for the future, and this is to define women as strong and independent. This should be the responsibility of photographers today: to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection.’ – Peter Lindbergh

‘Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What’s so special about being young? I just say that because I’m old.’ – Peter Lindbergh

‘The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead – no defile that has no outlet – it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘Now that I’m 50 and respectably settled in New England and markedly happier and more contented than I was in my youth, I modestly hope there’s time to realize some of my youthful goals before I croak, but I’ll take what I can get.’ – Kate Christensen

‘I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.’ – Maajid Nawaz

‘I’ve always been interested in cross-cultural exchange with the youth.’ – Ving Rhames

‘The devotion that young Chinese feel to the Internet is driven by deep factors ranging from youth unemployment and income inequality to political repression and the demographic imbalance between men and women.’ – Evan Osnos

‘Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don’t have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don’t have a 70-year-old’s dollars.’ – Iris Apfel

‘Sen. Rand Paul is a Different Kind of Republican. He will drag the party, kicking and screaming, toward a new kind of conservatism that appeals more to today’s youth, who embrace liberty and are skeptical of foreign intervention.’ – Alex Pareene

‘I was born on the west side of Chicago, and there was quite a bit of poverty. My family and I didn’t have exactly the best or the most optimal financial situation in my youth, but we turned out well. My mom always made sure that we got a proper education and that we dedicated ourselves to our work.’ – Sufe Bradshaw

‘I’m a pretty active person. I love yoga, crossfit, Zumba, and got to get that occasional hike in at Runyon Canyon when I can. I also love mentoring youth.’ – Sufe Bradshaw

‘I’ve always been interested in photographing traditions and customs – especially in America. The prom is an American tradition, a rite of passage that has always been one of the most important rituals of American youth. It is a day in our lives that we never forget – a day full of hopes and dreams for our future.’ – Mary Ellen Mark

‘I was raised on Nirvana and flannel shirts and Rage Against the Machine, and I sort of describe my youth as rebellious and always fighting the system.’ – Casey Neistat

‘Oh, youth is a wicked, cruel thing – eating miracles with its breakfast and not knowing they are not porridge.’ – Elizabeth Bibesco

‘Our age gives the more receptive among the young such a sense of social responsibility that one is inclined at times to fear that social interests may encroach upon individual development, that a knowledge of all the ills affecting the community may act as too powerful a damper on the joys of youth.’ – Ellen Key

‘To burn the ideal of a great love into the soul of youth in letters of fire – that is to give him a real moral strength.’ – Ellen Key

‘Looking back, I am grateful for so many friends who helped me in my youth to gain a testimony of the restored Church of Jesus Christ. First, I exercised simple faith in their testimonies, and then I received the divine witness of the Spirit to my mind and to my heart.’ – Dieter F. Uchtdorf

‘The Make in India campaign has taken off and is backed with skill development. It is going to open new vistas for employment for the youth.’ – Narendra Modi

‘Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy – how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.’ – Antonya Nelson

‘I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our obsessive focus on youth, on celebrity, our denial of death makes it harder for people who are grieving to find a place for that grief.’ – Edward Hirsch

‘The goal of each EarthEcho Expedition is to inspire and empower youth around the world with the knowledge and tools to take an active role in protecting critical natural resources in their own communities.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘EarthEcho Expeditions represents the culmination of more than a decade of working with educators and youth from around the world. EarthEcho Expeditions uses the thrill of adventure to inspire and empower a new generation of environmental champions.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘My grandfather raised me believing in the power of youth to change the world.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘I have spent many years working in education and media, from hosting documentaries to being a spokesperson for Discovery Education to revolutionizing youth environmental service through my non-profit, EarthEcho International.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘I am happy to the spokeswoman for this French youth that tomorrow will be spearhead new hope in the shape of the National Front.’ – Marion Marechal-Le Pen

‘In publishing ‘JFK: Reckless Youth’ almost twenty years ago, I had gotten into trouble myself with the Kennedys. Not because of my portrait of JFK – which was highly laudatory – but because I had described his parents, Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, in less-than-flattering terms.’ – Nigel Hamilton

‘The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.’ – Monique Roffey

‘All the money that’s donated to the Trevor Project provides resources that directly affect the youth that actually watch my videos. It’s a cool thing to see them basically provide resources for each other.’ – Tyler Oakley

‘VW has held a beloved place in American culture. When I graduated from college, many of my friends drove across the country, and most hit the road in a VW van or Bug. Through the years, these cars have represented youth, freedom and quirkiness.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘Youth sports could not exist without millions of volunteers and modestly paid coaches who teach our children how to skate and catch and dribble and also how to get along with others.’ – George Vecsey

‘I am something of an aficionado of thrift stores. In my youth, I regularly searched their shelves for old books.’ – Michael Dirda

”The Company You Keep’ is about outgrowing not just the delusions that accompany youth but the harsh certainties driving our lives and then trapping them before the years outpace the velocity of our dreams.’ – Steve Erickson

‘Except for a short period at the end of World War II, I attended an elementary school affiliated to Kobe University from ages six to twelve and then moved on to Nada Middle and High School from ages twelve to eighteen. I enjoyed many out-door activities in my youth.’ – Ryoji Noyori

‘I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, ‘Youth With a Mission.’ I was a kid – I was 18 – and did some work with homeless people. Really, trying to convert people is sort of an awful position to find yourself in, so I quickly, on my own, grew out of religious ideas.’ – Nathaniel Rateliff

‘The youth of Taiwan not only have to face the harsh reality of low wages and high commodity and housing prices, but due to the lack of employment opportunities, many young people are forced to leave their home towns to search for jobs in the cities.’ – Tsai Ing-wen

‘At Camellia Network, we believe if we can create a way of identifying every young person aging out of foster care, defining what they need, and giving a community of supporters a simple and clear way to fulfill those needs, we can produce radically improved outcomes for youth.’ – Vanessa Diffenbaugh

‘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

‘My husband and I have been involved with foster youth since our early 20s. Right out of college and not yet married, we spent weekends mentoring a family of young girls.’ – Vanessa Diffenbaugh

‘The problem is foster youth don’t really have this network that other kids have.’ – Vanessa Diffenbaugh

‘This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and ’60s. But that doesn’t work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what’s happening in the world.’ – Bassem Youssef

”Fountain of youth’ is actually kind of ambiguous – does it mean a way to make everyone healthy and let them live indefinitely? Or are we talking about something that would reset you physically to the way you were in your youth, which for various reasons not all of us would be enthused about?’ – Ann Leckie

‘Saint Mochua was the son of a certain Cronan, of noble race, and spent his youth in fighting. At the age of thirty, he laid aside his arms and burnt a house, with all its contents, which had been given to him by his uncle, saying that a servant of Christ should take nothing from sinners.’ – Sabine Baring-Gould

‘I have a tough skin and enough confidence not to worry too much about being underestimated because of my last name, my relative youth, or my modeling background. It comes with the territory.’ – Ivanka Trump

‘For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.’ – W. E. B. Du Bois

‘There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.’ – H. P. Lovecraft

‘I was 18 years old when I booked ‘Youth in Revolt,’ and it was my first movie, and I was starring in that movie – and even then, I didn’t feel like I had made it.’ – Portia Doubleday

‘We’ve all recognized the moment when the world has handed us a situation that is bigger than our youth can handle, and we have to grow up in a second. And when you do get to the other side, all it does is take us to this new level of existence that is more beautiful and more complex and, in some ways, more painful.’ – Brie Larson

‘I spent my entire youth being in love with gay men because they were the most interesting and compassionate people I knew.’ – Jane Hamilton

‘I’m getting less and less interested in the problems of youth. I’m much more interested in the idea of emotional paralysis, and I find myself less interested in work that doesn’t have anything to do with a conversation about the world.’ – Anna D. Shapiro

‘I think it’s when I won the Youth Olympics I thought, ‘I can really get gold in London.” – Jade Jones

‘I now have Youth Olympic, Olympic and European Games titles, which is a dream. I didn’t fight that well and just scraped through a lot of the fights, but winning is a relief, and it’s more points towards the Rio Olympics, which takes a bit of pressure off me.’ – Jade Jones

‘Experiences from our youth shape what we do later in life.’ – Jan Koum

‘I have a message for the youth of America. The next time somebody promises you a lifetime contract, say, ‘Thank you. But would you mind putting that in writing?” – Sid Gillman

‘In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It’s about youth and youth culture. There’s no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.’ – Larry Mullen, Jr.

‘When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom… that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.’ – Daniel Espinosa

‘Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.’ – Walt Handelsman

‘At the end of 2002, mid-way through my junior year at Yale and increasingly freaked out about the deepening climate crisis, I dropped out to try to build a youth movement.’ – Billy Parish

‘As someone who runs a solar financing company and founded the world’s largest youth clean energy organization, I know solar energy is a very good investment.’ – Billy Parish

‘I reached a point where – I have a real heart and concern for families and for youth, and the more I became involved in working through a ministry, the more I realized how powerful the entertainment industry was and how irresponsible it was.’ – Ben Harney

‘The youth coming up is interested in dance now, and they’re coming to the shows. That’s a blessing for those of us who create.’ – Savion Glover

‘Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit. I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.’ – John Burroughs