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.
I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.
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.
I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.
The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for his authority.
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.’
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.
I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.
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.
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.
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.
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
That’s the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
Let your youth have free reign. It won’t come again, so be bold, and no repenting.
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.
I think that our culture is doing something to women – let’s say women in their late 30s and 40s and probably even 50s, – where they really are expected to keep this insane level of fitness and youth. I find that just a real waste of women’s lives. I really do think that.
I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
I’ve always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
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.
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.
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.
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
I spent most of my youth in Manchester, in clubs and football grounds and the Manchester Apollo.
I’m very, very involved in charities involving youth.
If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
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.
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
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.
I was competitive ping-pong player. I played in youth tournaments, under the age of 13.
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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.
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.
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.
I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
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.
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.
I’ve always been interested in cross-cultural exchange with the youth.
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.
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.
