I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.
A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.
I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.
Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between.
Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects.
Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.
But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.
Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.
The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.
I know I'm representing a group - black, Latin, whatever you want to put me with - and I want to show that they are beautiful the way they are. I think that's really important for our youth to see.
I take inspiration from books, movies, television, music - it all goes in the hopper. Depending on the project, I'm drawing from this or that piece of art that has stayed with me. Toni Morrison, George Romero, Sonic Youth - they are all in there.
Club culture is always going to be a reflection of youth culture, but I think we're maybe moving into a time when the club is a place where older people can go, too. And it's a place people go to connect to themselves, it's not always about the party. It's also about letting off steam and expressing yourself and connecting to other people.
Age considers; youth ventures.
The food we eat is our identity. The youth of the nation must save our food culture and traditions. If not, it will affect future generations.
The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words.
I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
I think it's when I won the Youth Olympics I thought, 'I can really get gold in London.'
I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.
The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!
In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
Death, torture and prison are part of daily life for the youth of Iran. They are not like us, my friends and I at their age; they are not scared. They are not what we were. They hold hands and scream: 'Don't be afraid! Don't be afraid! We are together!' They understand that no one will give them their rights; they must go get them.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.
