Youth Quotes - Page 29

We are slowly isolating the genes involved with the aging process. We do not have the fountain of youth, but I think, in the coming decades, we will unravel the aging process at the genetic level.

There's a feeling of immortality you have in youth. You just don't see the dangers around you, or, if you do, maybe you're even excited by them.

Plenty of drug dealing does happen in the 'hood, but it happens everywhere else in America as well. In fact, some studies suggest that where significant differences in the data can be found, white youth are more likely to engage in illegal drug dealing than black youth.

How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?

Of course we can talk about the radical potential of youth. But in the U.S. it is still the case that most youth are conservative and not very sympathetic to the working class.

Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs and Russell Simmons have made millions from their clothing lines.

Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more to give.

Sending our youth to war is wrong.

When I interviewed the evangelical Christian youth group who were protesting the Village Voice, I wanted them to feel they could freely tell me things like, "Did you know that 90 percent of prostitutes don't want to be doing it?" Is that unfair? That's sort of an invisible privilege for me.

Nowadays, influencers do anything to keep up with each other for attention, and it's not always something today's youth should mimic.

If we are given a chance to go back to our youth, we won't go back, because we cannot give up our accumulated wisdom and we cannot give up things that belong to our time!

Life must be understood before getting old, most preferably, in youth!

All men leave the harbour of youth, but only few reach the very far island of wisdom!

About loving, I have little to learn from the young.

I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.

Youth is so cynical. There's never anything to believe in as a teen.

The modest youth somehow knows just what to do for the cameras.

The young are amazed when they suffer.

The young have stolen our youthfulness, and flaunt it without shame.

The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young.

The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.

The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age.

Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young.