Quotes about Youth

Excitement doesn't knock at your door any less when you're older than when you're younger. It's just that when you're younger, you're more likely to open the door and let it in. With age, you start growing ambivalent about excitement. You might say that you want it, but at the same time you're not sure you have the energy for it. Yet a surefire way to diminish your energy is to deny the Ultimate energy pill, which is participation in life itself.

We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

The questions today are different, and if people don't get answers from pastors and parents, they will find them in dark, depraved places.

The essence of masculinity is taking responsibility for yourself, then a wife, then children. These are the kinds of things the Bible says qualify a man to be a church leader.[198] Guys who don't do this act irresponsibly, take rather than give, and dump their responsibilities on others by virtue of their childish ways. This is why Jeremiah wrote, "It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young."[199] Men are like trucks: they drive straighter when carrying a load.

Young evangelicals are likely to leave their faith because they are not able to articulate their own faith, and many lack a biblical worldview.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

It was good to be alive; it was better to be young; it was best of all to be in love.

Because each of us is the sum of all we have ever experienced. Only the very young have a clean slate. The rest of us must live forever with everything we have ever been.

If she were seventeen at the time of her father's disappearance she must be seven-and-twenty now--a sweet age, when youth has lost its self-consciousness and become a little sobered by experience.

Once you are born in this world you're old enough to die.

What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

You can determine the kind of life you will have in your 30s and 40s by what you do in your teens.