Quotes about Youth

As we all know, mental health matters, while we still have a long way to go, we're starting to see the wheels turning for real and meaningful change. As a parent of young boys, the fact these conversations will be happening at home, in their friendship groups and in the classroom is so important.

When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: 'Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.' 'I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.'

Everyone is going through this ageing process. Whether in their minds or they are discussing it with their friends, they all want to look good and they don't know what to do.

I love watching faces as they grow up. It's the difference between so many strong British actresses compared to what America does to women. I like a face that hasn't been tampered with.

No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I've had a crush on him since I was a teenager.

When I was a teenager I fell in love with TS Eliot.

Even as a teenager, I felt that for whatever reason that we were living very close to the end of human history. And now at my age I believe that with almost an increasing certainty.

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

I am not sure how old I was when I began to worry about being saved, but it was sometime in my early teens.

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

If you have a temper, now is the time to learn to control it. The more you do so while you are young, the more easily it will happen.