Time, Aging & Legacy: Youth Quotes

"In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid"

Al Purdy, Poet

"Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst"

Nigella Lawson, Journalist

"Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin, and I don't think you can change that"

Nigella Lawson, Journalist

"I'm not sure I'm adult yet"

Johnny Depp, Actor

"However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma"

Julian Clary, Comedian

"Of paramount importance is the development of the spiritual and moral world of our people, especially youth"

Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President

"We’ve set ourselves very high goals. To achieve them we believe in youngsters like you and we look to you"

Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President

"Working with youth should be the main task for all of us – from the President to the minister, from the hokim to the mahalla chairperson"

Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President

"Our goal is for the young people in the New Uzbekistan to be harmoniously developed individuals with a broad outlook and creative thinking, ready to take responsibility for the fate of the Motherland"

Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President

"We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off"

Vinoba Bhave, Educator

"It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16, that can get you kickstarted"

Ewan McGregor, Actor

"Most of the younger people I knew didn't seem to have a handle on things; they hadn't found their place, they didn't understand how the world works, they didn't understand how to treat other people, and they didn't know how to stop thinking about themselves"

Kristin Hersh, Musician

"Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong"

Kiefer Sutherland, Actor

"I didn't have a childhood"

Katy Perry, Musician

"I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates"

Scott Hamilton, Athlete

"Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - it's not until we get older that we realize that other people exist"

Jennifer Lawrence, Actress

"I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest"

DeForest Kelley, Actor

"I had bags of energy as a kid"

Christopher Eccleston, Actor

"I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild"

Tina Weymouth, Musician

"Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes"

Annette Funicello, Actress

"The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China"

Rob Lowe, Actor

"When I was 13, I had a fake ID that said that I was 19. I was getting in all the clubs"

Kurtis Blow, Musician

"I think back at the time, if it had been 1988, I would have thought Michael and Sarah probably would have been cast, but I don't think, I think it's much better that the girl is younger and if Sarah would have been 26 or 27 then"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising"

Billy Crystal, Comedian

"I was a girl from Massapequa, New York. I grew up in Massapequa. I lived in a basement with one window"

Jessica Hahn, Celebrity

"I feel that you always pay when you are a child"

Itzhak Perlman, Musician

"Youth should be a savings bank"

Sophie Swetchine, Author

"I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church"

Jessica Hahn, Celebrity

"You know us crazy kids. We'll do anything crazy to our hair"

Ryan Gosling, Actor

"I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer"

Suzanne Farrell, Dancer

"You can only be stupid when you're young"

Peter Gallagher, Actor

"This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising"

Joseph Brodsky, Poet

"Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know"

John Denham, Politician

"We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works"

Margot Kidder, Actress

"I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing"

Rob Lowe, Actor

"There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts"

Kiefer Sutherland, Actor

"We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children"

L. Neil Smith, Writer

"When I was 20 or 21, I didn't... I won't say care about anything, but you're like in your own world - you made something that you always wanted to do, and then you kind of think only about your family and yourself"

Thierry Henry, Athlete

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