Quotes about Youth

Children make you want to start life over.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are

Voddie Baucham, a former all-American football player, offers a catchy athletic metaphor. "Sending young people into the world without a biblical worldview," he says, "is like sending a ballplayer onto the field without a playbook."17 Team spirit is not enough. An athlete needs to comprehend the game's strategy.

Yet church youth groups rarely teach apologetics, majoring instead on games and goodies.

A philosopher once noted that something is odd if a person is not liberal when he is young and conservative when he is old.

I was a hotheaded young man who attempted to make up for his ignorance with militancy.

Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.

If we teach students that there is no right and wrong, why are we surprised when a couple of students gun down their classmates or a teenage mother leaves her baby in a trash can?

When we were young we thought of old age as an ailment that affected only other people.

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable

Football is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys.