Youth Quotes

Think, speak, and act. With age comes self-reproach: I might have done more. Therefore now do!

"How do you find yourself,when your hand to hold is letting go?"

youth has power, a kind of divine power straight from mother nature

Curiosity, creativity, discovery and wonder; they aren’t traits of youth, they’re traits of learning. If you want to feel younger and you want to replicate the conditions of youth, do that.

It's funny spending your twenties running away from it, and then you hit your thirties...wait a second! Come back! I want that time back when I didn't appreciate what I had! That kind of ripe sexuality, when you hit your thirties you feel more in possession of it, you feel it's not something that can be sort of taken away from you and reassembled.

When she talks about her life, [she] can make it sound as though, beneath a fragile veneer of confidence, she has spent a long time flailing to catch on to the kind of everyday knowledge that she felt everyone else just seemed to know.

I didn't know what I was doing at so many points in my life that I felt that if I had stopped and admitted that I didn't know what I was doing then I would be really lost, and the best thing to do was to just keep forging and to act like you were okay.

We were young. We had momentum. We were winning.

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

I'm much too young to feel this damn old.

We're burning down the highway skyline
On the back of a hurricane
That started turning
When you were young.

The danger is when money is combined with prestige, as in, say, corporate law, or medicine. A comparatively safe and prosperous career with some automatic baseline prestige is dangerously tempting to someone young, who hasn't thought much about what they really like.

Every once in a while one of these contemporaries made a farewell round of calls before going up to New York or Philadelphia or Pittsburgh to go into business, but mostly they just stayed round in this languid paradise of dreamy skies and firefly evenings and noisy nigger street fairs - and especially of gracious, soft-voiced girls, who were brought up on memories instead of money.

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible--and achieve it, generation after generation.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.

Which is why we're too young to realize that certain things are impossible. So we will do them anyway.

You'll never win anything with kids.

The youth has to create.
A youth who does not believe is an anomaly