Quotes about Youth

How beautiful is death, when earned by virtue! 80 Who would not be that youth? what pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country!8 —Why sits this sadness on your brows, my friends? I should have blushed if Cato's house had stood Secure, and flourished in a civil war. 85 —Portius, behold thy brother, and remember Thy life is not thy own, when Rome demands it.

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

The "Dorky Girl Fantasies" trilogy (Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, and Some Kind of Wonderful) and the "Dorky Boy Fantasies" trilogy (The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off).

Youth may be admired for vigor, but gray hair gives prestige to old age.

Youth is the best time to be rich and the best time to be poor.

All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.

I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.

When you see people your own age afflicted and experiencing life-threatening illnesses, I think it prompts you to apply to yourself the philosophy, 'I want to do the best I know how to do every day.'

And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.

Don't grow up too fast, darling. Age is inevitalbe but if you nurture a childlike heart you'll never grow old.

Worry leads to gray hair

When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.