Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
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.
I have the courage of youth, and I’m not afraid of anything. My only enemies are illegality and corruption.
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.
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.
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.
I go to school the youth to learn the future.
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.
I am living proof that youth possess a unique capacity to grow and change – that the child who seems hopeless today could go on to change the world.
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.
When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.
If you’re in college, if you’re in high school, if you’re in elementary school, if you’re in a youth league, if you’re in the NFL, football’s football.
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.
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.
In the decades since my youth, I’ve witnessed the explosion of fatherless families and an exponential increase in illiteracy and crime.
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.
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
In capital we trust. Capital is our savior, our holy grail, our fountain of youth, or at least health, for banks.
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.
You’ve got to have a young element in a show. Any project needs youth and dynamism as well old codgerdom and experience.
Apathy in youth culture is pretty stark.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.’
Looking forward, we see that it is the youth of today who hold the key to tomorrow. And we can help unlock it.
What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.
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.
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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.
We’ve been using ‘rejuvenate,’ meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.
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.
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
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.
Fame is the thirst of youth.
The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.
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.
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.
Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.
Whether it’s my age or my misspent youth, sometimes I forget whether I’ve worked with somebody or not.
Diana became a superstar when she became a part of the Royal Family because she brought youth and glamour and fun into a staid and dusty institution, and at times she eclipsed the Prince of Wales. It was one of the early problems within their marriage.
I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.
We can’t get our youth back.
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.
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.
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.
However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.
There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and ‘how well you look’.
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.
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.
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
