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.
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I would say there’s always a movement of music and fashion in youth culture – every decade inspires the new one.
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.
Youth is wasted on the young.
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.
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.
I don’t like rap that you can’t understand. The youth is so quick and alert.
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.
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.
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.
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.
To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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.
The youth is the hope of our future.
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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.
In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.
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.
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.
Reach out to the military-connected youth in your classrooms, your neighborhoods and your families and offer your gratitude for the service they undoubtedly provide in supporting, uplifting and encouraging the men and women of the United States armed forces.
We are in love with youth culture in this country… It permeates every aspect of people’s lives.
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.
After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I do believe the aura of the Olympics is the greatest platform for sport and when one achieves success there it is sure to fire up the imagination of the youth.
Youth doesn’t need friends – it only needs crowds.
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.
I spent my entire youth being in love with gay men because they were the most interesting and compassionate people I knew.
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.
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.
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.
Literature – Eastern and Western – abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
I’m certainly not surprised by the passion of the youth for our myths. Mythology is almost a part of an Indian’s DNA.
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.
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.
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.
‘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.
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
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.
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.
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
