Quotes about Youth
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.
— Saint Francis Xavier
Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth
— Samuel Johnson
I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
— Samuel Johnson
Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.
— Mark Twain
I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, "I'm serious about this. These other little kids they want to play, and I don't have time for that.
— Denzel Washington
We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.
— Winston Churchill
When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.
— Bo Jackson
Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
— William Wordsworth
Youth holds no society with grief.
— Euripides
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
— John Milton
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
— Joseph Addison
I just don't have time to get old!
— Dolly Parton