Quotes about Youth

When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.

The older you get, the fewer slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

When you are in high school, you don't give much thought to what you can't do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.

When I was younger if I was in someone else's shoes, if you saw a professional athlete you'd want to go up and introduce yourself and ask a couple questions, so I definitely know where they're coming from.

A lot of my friends who were bigger than me at school got into academies at professional clubs but none are pros now. And none of them has put on an England shirt.

Isn't it delightful to forget how old we are?