Youth quotes

“How I envy the young. For them everything is so clear. Things seem to be either one way or another. It is only with a little age that you begin to see life as a series of compromises. But even in compromising one must draw a line.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Herr Knopp, Gestapo

“Well, we're not youths anymore, Peter Pan!”
Judd Nelson - Phil Hicks

“You know, I developed alcoholism early on, actually.”
Andrew McCarthy - Cecil Sweeney

“I find this mid-century obsession with young flesh obscene! It's like eating green cantaloupes!”
Jacqueline Bisset - Liz Hamilton

“- Hazel Flagg: I don't suppose newspaper men marry - as a rule.
- Wally Cook: Not after 14 or 15. That's the dangerous age for the journalist. His ideals are not yet formed and he falls easy prey to elderly waitresses.”
Carole Lombard - Hazel Flagg
Fredric March - Wally Cook

“- Martin Riggs: Look, that kid was a killer, alright? That wasn't a Tinker Toy in his hand, that was a machine pistol with twin carbies and all the trimmings, man! He would've drilled you, me, anybody that came along, alright? You had no choice.
- Roger Murtaugh: Oh no, it didn't happen to you, Riggs, it happened to me! It happened to me! I...” (continue)(continue reading)

Mel Gibson - Martin Riggs
Danny Glover - Roger Murtaugh

“- Sigmund 'Siggy' Marvin: I mean, my dad just dropped me in the water, without warning me first. I mean, I nearly drowned! My whole life flashed before my eyes!
- Bob Wiley: Wow, you're lucky you're only twelve.
- Sigmund 'Siggy' Marvin: It was still grim.”
Bill Murray - Bob Wiley
Charlie Korsmo - Sigmund 'Siggy' Marvin

“Should I bolt every time I get that feeling in my gut when I meet someone new? Well, I've been listening to my gut since I was 14-years-old, and frankly speaking, I've come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains.”
John Cusack - Rob Gordon

“I smell youth... vintage youth.”
Joss Ackland - Priest

“- Captain: Take pictures of the crew returning, not putting out to sea.
- Lt. Werner: Why?
- Captain: They'll have grown beards by then. It would shame the Tommies to see mere boys give them Hell. Baby faces. Ones that should still suck mama's breast. I feel ancient around these kids, like I'm on some Children's Crusade.”
Jürgen Prochnow - Capt.-Lt. Henrich Lehmann-Willenbrock - Der Alte
Herbert Grönemeyer - Lt. Werner - Correspondent

“The new world is too far. Too big. Too primitive. No, no, my place is here... corrupting the young.”
Alan Cumming - Lord Rochester

“I dont wanna die! I never even hit puberty yet!”
Chad Power - Tum Tum

“Adolescence is a marketing tool.”
Frances McDormand - Elaine Miller

“It is kind of you to indulge your elders in their vices. Just as I indulge the young in theirs.”
Sir Ian McKellen - James Whale

Look kid... what I do, running around, stealing stuff, may sound great when you're 14 years old, but it sucks just a little bit when you're 35. No house, no family. I got a partner who's 56, alcoholic... he still can't understand why they took "Happy Days" off the air. And then I got to turn on the TV every day and see kids like you, one after... (continue)(continue reading)
Denis Colin Leary - Gus

“Crabs! You guys got crabs! That's what they called them in my day. You young people.”
Mel Welles - Druggist

“Being young is sometimes less fun than being dead.”
Christian Slater - Mark Hunter

“The face of war is ugly. It's not for the young.”
Walter Brennan - Karp

“In Rome today, the Pope issued a message of hope for believers in their fight against what he termed the godless and lost. He offered a prayer for the young, whom he described as sadly in need of faith and not the illusion of conviction offered by rock music, drugs and contemporary poetry.”
Reggie Harris - Anchorman

“Boys forget what their country means by just reading The Land of the Free in history books. Then they get to be men - they forget even more.”

James Stewart - Jefferson Smith

“- Agnes' Father Olof: Bengt, who was then the class king, he didn't become anything. And the girls who were considered the prettiest, they weren't special any longer. So I think you'll be glad that you don't have it so easily. Because those who have it easy often become quite uninteresting.
- Agnes Ahlberg: But you're speaking in about 25 years....” (continue)(continue reading)

Ralph Carlsson - Agnes' Father Olof
Rebecka Liljeberg - Agnes Ahlberg

“I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.”
Denzel Washington - Bleek Gilliam

“Ah, it's great to be young and insane!”
Michael Keaton - Billy Caufield

“- Master's Wife: Aren't you broads a little old to be trick or treating?
- Winifred Sanderson: We'll be younger in the morning.
- Master's Wife: Yeah, sure, me too.”
Penny Marshall - Master's wife
Bette Midler - Winifred

“You don't know what a zip gun would do? Man, you better wear diapers.”

Susan Oakes - Anybodys