Teenage Independence

Youth has no age. - Pablo Picasso

Everybody is a teenage idol. - Barry Gibb

Fame is the thirst of youth. - Lord Byron

Age considers; youth ventures. - Rabindranath Tagore

Cherish youth, but trust old age. - Pueblo Proverb

Youth comes but once in a lifetime. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He wears the rose of youth upon him. - William Shakespeare

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. - William Shakespeare

The youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity. - Benjamin Disraeli

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. - Aristotle

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood. - Louise J. Kaplan

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. - e e cummings

Fourty is the old age of youth; 50 is the youth of old age. - Victor Hugo

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. - Bryan White

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. - Herbert Asquith

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. - Al Bernstein

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. - George Bernard Shaw

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. - George Santayana

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has. - Anita Brookner

Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. - Alfred Whitehead

Our youth we can have but today; we may always find time to grow old. - George Berkeley

It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all. - Georges Courteline

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune. - Joseph Addison

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China. - Rob Lowe

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. - Dave Barry

Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible. - Bob Harper

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. - Franklin D Roosevelt

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. - W Somerset Maugham

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love. - Monique Roffey

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall. A mother's secret hope outlives them all. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. - Logan P. Smith

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. - Bill Vaughan

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should. - Sargent Shriver

Motherhood is not for the fainthearted. Frogs, skinned knees and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy. - Danielle Steele

The key to happiness and youth is an unencumbered spirit – whether it comes naturally or whether you have to work hard for it. - Emme Woodhull-Bache

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become. - André Gide

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. - Margaret Atwood