Time, Aging & Legacy: Youth Quotes

"Teens are dealing with the same problems now in the '90s as they did back in the '70s, the only real difference is the clothes we wear!"

Mila Kunis, Actress

"We're all idealistic when young"

Pat Oliphant, Cartoonist

"Yeah, yeah. I, I don't think I'm always right. But I don't think young people are always right, either"

Rube Goldberg, Cartoonist

"I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups"

Richard O'Brien, Actor

"Being a kid and growing up is such a cool part of life"

Devon Werkheiser, Actor

"Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name"

Marge Schott, Businessman

"Buffy's very similar to me to me when I was growing up. A child in an adult world, sort of trapped between the two. Does Buffy go to the prom or does she save the world from demons?"

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Actress

"I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl"

Pam Grier, Actress

"A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School"

Gene Wolfe, Writer

"We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live"

Abdoulaye Wade, Statesman

"Early youth is a baffling time"

Bruce Catton, Historian

"I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is crucial for this state because we don't want to be known for having the oldest state in the nation. We want young families"

John Baldacci, Politician

"People generally have sex fairly young, and probably younger than they should be having it"

Steve Carell, Actor

"No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive"

John Cassavetes, Actor

"I wrapped 'Buffy' and I always felt on 'Buffy' that they wanted to keep me younger for a specific reason. It seemed like I was getting younger every year that I was on the show. I think there was a reference to me being 15, then 14"

Michelle Trachtenberg, Actress

"New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19"

Patricia Clarkson, Actress

"I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen, I was more familiar with Africa than my own body"

Joe Orton, Playwright

"It's not the most normal life in the world, but I screw up plenty of times to be a normal teenager"

Mila Kunis, Actress

"You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear"

Karl Philipp Moritz, Author

"We should be the natural home for younger voters. But today we're not. Because too often we sound like people who just don't like contemporary Britain"

Francis Maude, Politician

"I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place"

Stephen Sprouse, Designer

"Hollywood looks to these young people now to say something to the world. I have nothing against that, I think a lot of people have things to say. But I think you need life experience"

Sasha Alexander, Actress

"There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going"

Jena Malone, Actress

"Advice is such a tricky thing when you're young"

Jena Malone, Actress

"When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger"

Michelle Trachtenberg, Actress

"I am young. I better show off what I have now"

Michelle Trachtenberg, Actress

"All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by"

Conrad Aiken, Author

"Don't peak in high school"

Lizzy Caplan, Actress

"I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?"

Clyde Tombaugh, Scientist

"I think everybody's always attracted to both sexes. I mean, I think that women are very attractive. I've kissed girls, but everybody experiments. It's part of growing up"

Monica Keena, Actress

"I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind"

Marc Bolan, Musician

"Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older"

Pierre Loti, Writer

"I was at that time like a fledgling swallow living high up in a niche in the eaves, who from time to time peeps out over the top of its nest with its little bright eyes"

Pierre Loti, Writer

"I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12"

Gail Porter, Celebrity

"Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth, and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure"

Felix Bloch, Scientist

"I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you don't necessarily pick up on it when you're an adult"

Victoria Pratt, Actress

"As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me"

James Ellroy, Writer

"I've experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon, and I am encouraged that the federal government is taking an active role in the Cascade Youth and Family Center"

Greg Walden, Politician

"My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn"

Frank McCourt, Author

"Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles"

William Lilly, Celebrity

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