Quotes about Youth

How sad it is! murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June.... If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that--for that--I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!

I wrote when I did not know life. Now that I know life, I have no more to write.

It takes a long time to grow young.

It was not that I did not love you; it was that I expected too much of youth. I was measuring you by the yardstick of my own years.

Dallas: Jesus was a man of truth. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth, not of correct doctrine. I am just saying that we need to tell our young people, "Follow Jesus, and if you can find a better way than him, he would be the first to tell you to take it.

"Then his flesh is renewed like a child's; it is restored as in the days of his youth."

"For you have been my hope, O Sovereign Lord, my confidence since my youth. From my birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother's womb. I will ever praise you."

Here's looking at you kid.

In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

When you're younger, you think of your age in fractions. 4 1/2, 5 1/2. You don't hear 36 1/2. You become 2, you turn 40, you reach 50, you make it to 60. By now you're going so fast you hit 70!