One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
William Feather

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
Huey Newton

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.
Lenny Bruce

Young people are the key to this election.
Kinky Friedman

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.
Kinky Friedman

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

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.
Meryl Streep

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
Meryl Streep

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.
Alvin Ailey

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.
Spike Lee

We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts.
Spike Lee

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. Rowling

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
Andre Gide

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
Leonard Cohen

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
Pat Riley

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
Timothy Leary

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
Desmond Tutu

I have not always loved wisely, but I was young.
Brigitte Bardot

Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.
Mike Myers