Quotes about Youth
Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it.
— Barack Obama
You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.
— Marianne Williamson
When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.
— Marilyn Monroe
The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I loved the world of Oz. I guess as a young man, I was just drawn to fantasy worlds. I liked being transported to alternative realms where a lot of my early imagination was sparked.
— James Franco
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.
— John Updike
When one is grown up, money is lying about at one's service. It is only when one is young that it is rare. Take no thought for money - that always lies to hand.(Women in Love)
— DH Lawrence
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I was always at the gymnasium every day at six o'clock after school. In the mornings I would run, looking forward to future golden gloves and Olympic tournaments.
— Muhammad Ali
If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
— James A. Garfield
Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?
— Ezra Taft Benson