Youthful Quotes

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
Jessamyn West

Ignorance, Two, Young

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
Frances Burney

Mind, Free, Ambition

Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.
Cat Stevens

Nice, Feeling, Once

I wanted to make youthful, irreverent anthems. Parents might not get it, but kids would.
Kesha

Parents, Wanted, Kids

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.
Kim Cattrall

Time, Great, Youth

I'll declare my own interest right here at the start and admit that, like the vast majority of people, I find youthful looks appealing.
Julie Burchill

Find, Here, Start

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.
David Frum

Politics, Friends, Balance

The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.
Ayelet Waldman

Good, Fear, Care

One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.
Juvenal

Small, Globe, Alexander

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

Change, Makes, Quality

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.
Louise Brown

Women, Passion, Battle

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.
John Cheever

Beauty, Good, Power

Acting is a youthful profession.
Kirk Douglas

Acting, Profession

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
James D. Watson

Truth, Science, Simple

For some reason I can't explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this youthful sense of discovery and wonder for what you're doing and keep your imagination open. That's a youthful way of looking at life and I think that reflects in how you age.
Joshua Bell

Life, Music, Age

It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.
Antony Beevor

Family, Mother, Job

My mom didn't use face cream, like, nothing at all. She's got great skin and looks very youthful.
Lara Stone

Great, Mom, Nothing

So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful.
Goldie Hawn

Important, Young, Curiosity

As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.
Taylor Hanson

Music, Art, Rock

Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.
Lara St. John

Another, Decisions, Making

I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure.
John Woolman

Greatest, Serious, Knew

I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else.
Steve Albini

Job, Busy, Else

My mom is in her mid-60s and has more energy and is more youthful than any human being I know. It's pretty incredible.
Oliver Hudson

Mom, Human, Pretty

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
J. M. Coetzee

Life, Often, Leave

One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.
Vijay Mallya

Future, Young, Biggest

Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
Edgard Varese

Life, Music, Alone

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

School, Young, Around

I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.
Henry Bessemer

Energy, Year, Full

The young people look great on television. They're youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven't got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so.
Tony Bennett

Great, Live, Young

I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.
Kay Panabaker

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