I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.

I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.

I've spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change.

I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.

I have found things that I could have done better in 'The Woman Warrior.' But then I thought: Let the work of one's youth just stand.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

I had my own youth. I had fun playing in the amateurs, going out with my friends on the weekend, drinking a beer, that sort of thing.

From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing.

Things don't have to come to you in your youth. It's fine for them to come to you when you get older. That's a motto in my household.

Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.

I don't want to be set in music my whole life. I want to experience some of my youth not being Tom Misch, away from the expectations.

During the whole time in Sonic Youth, I was happy to put my energy into that. It would have been very difficult to do a solo project.

I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.

Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.

Hip-hop certainly is in sync with the youth, and every day that passes, I grow less youthful, as much as I have tried to hold onto it.

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

In the decades since my youth, I've witnessed the explosion of fatherless families and an exponential increase in illiteracy and crime.

Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.

My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.

I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.

Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it's a mistake and to enjoy my youth while I had it.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.

If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.

Nixon wasn't really considered the president by the youth of America. He was considered to be a fraud and which he proved himself to be.

I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.

Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be young.

It's important to me that youth everywhere, no matter their race, religion, or gender, know that anything is possible with perseverance.

The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.

What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.

Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme, Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay; Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime, For oh, it is not always May!

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!

The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for his authority.

We would like to have every middle and high school become a place where there will be lots of examples of youth competence and confidence.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

A lot of scouts and people are enamored with athleticism and youth. So they take that any day over mature, high-quality basketball players.

We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on.

The seeds of a happy marriage are sown in youth. Happiness does not begin at the altar; it begins during the period of youth and courtship.

We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.

The Make in India campaign has taken off and is backed with skill development. It is going to open new vistas for employment for the youth.

They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured smile.

I've been playing youth basketball ever since I was in sixth grade; I've been traveling ever since I was in sixth grade, so I'm used to it.

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

When young, one learns his craftsmanship, may become a young master, and it is youth that is most auspicious for developing certain skills.

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

I would like to tell you as the president of the republic, I am not embarrassed to listen to the Youth of my country and to respond to them.

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