Youth quotes

“I've lived in this city all my life. I grew up on the Upper East Side. And when I was ten years old, I was rich, I was an aristocrat. Riding around in taxis, surrounded by comfort, and all I thought about was art and music. Now, I'm 36, and all I think about is money.”
Wallace Shawn - Wallace Shawn

“You know what I see when I look at you, Darrell? I see me. I see me when I was young and stupid.”

Ernie Hudson - Principal Claude Rolle

“- Doc: Fighting over a little piece of street is so important?
- Action: To us it is!”
Ned Glass - Doc
Tony Mordente - Action

“Learn to articulate, you juvenile delinquent!”
James Bond III - Monroe

“Every age has its own dreams. Leave, then, the dreams of yesterday. Youth, take the torch of knowledge and build the palace of the future.”

Greer Garson - Marie Curie

“Who cares about sleep when you can snooze in school? You'll never get to college but you'll sure look cool!”

James Marsden - Corny Collins

“Nobody ever listens to a teenager. Everybody thinks you should be happy just because you're young. They don't see the wars that we fight every single day. And one day, my war will end. And I won't die. And I will not tolerate abuse from anyone. I am strong.”
Vanetta Smith - Brandy Ross

“What is... a man of, uh, your age... doing with my 21-year-old daughter? It'd be easy enough to say you're afraid of mature women, but that's so glib. Afraid of what, exactly? So I kept thinking. And then it hit me. I know exactly what she has that I haven't got. Awe. That's it, isn't it? I mean, no real woman, no woman of experience would ever...” (continue)(continue reading)

Jean Smart - Deborah Sloane

“These young people, they were brought up on MTV and video games. They know nothing of the real world. They can't conceive of the true brutality of nature.”
Charlton Heston - Perry

“- Elvin Clyde: Who did you go as?
- Peter Appleton: A horny young man.”
Bob Balaban - Elvin Clyde
Jim Carrey - Peter Appleton

“- Rethrick: There was a time when we were in school, we wanted to change the world?
- Jennings: I thought we said we wanted to save the world.
- Rethrick: Well, that's semantics.”
Aaron Eckhart - Rethrick
Ben Affleck - Jennings

“He was an old man in a young girl's world.”

Diane Lane - Corinne Burns

“- Data: I feel obliged to point out that the environmental anomalies may have stimulated certain rebellious instincts common to youth, which could affect everyone's judgment... Except mine of course.
- Beverly: Okay Data. What do you think we should do?
- Data: Saddle up, lock and load!”
Brent Spiner - Data
Gates McFadden - Beverly

“- Regina Lambert: Have you ever been in love in Paris, Joshua?
- Joshua Peters: Uh, I can't say I've had that pleasure, Reggie.
- Regina Lambert: Well, you're still young. Maybe you still have a chance.
- Joshua Peters: That would be nice.”
Thandie Newton - Regina Lambert
Mark Wahlberg - Joshua Peters

“Whatever we had, we gave it away.”
Edward James Olmos - Montoya Santana

“- Dad: He's never tired. He's never miserable.
- Mom: He's young.
- Dad: When I was young I was tired and miserable.”

Paul Dooley - Dad
Barbara Barrie - Mom

“What a sad vision of today's youth. The juvenile authorities have had it with Drape gangs.”
Robert Walsh - Judge

“- Stephen Falken: I've planned ahead. We're just three miles from a primary target. A millisecond of brilliant light and we're vaporized. Much more fortunate than millions who wander sightless through the smoldering aftermath. We'll be spared the horror of survival.
- Jennifer: I'm only 17 years old. I'm not ready to die yet.”
John Wood - Falken
Ally Sheedy - Jennifer

“She's eighteen. In this city that's old enough for a Martini.”

Candice Bergen - Merry Noel Blake

“I need some young blood, I need some young blood. I need it now!”
Jessica Harper - Janet Majors

“- Johnny: I've never felt this way before.
- Helen: Of course not. You're twenty.”
Tom Everett Scott - Johnny
Kate Capshaw - Helen

“I think the real obscenity comes from raising our youth to believe that sex is bad and ugly and dirty, and yet it is heroic to go spill guts and blood in the most ghastly manner in the name of humanity.”
Woody Harrelson - Larry Flynt

“This is the home of my youth... as a boy, I couldn't wait to escape from this house. Now, I'm glad to escape back into it.”

Raymond Massey - Jonathan Brewster

“I think my biggest problem is being young and beautiful. It's my biggest problem because I've never been young and beautiful. Oh, I've been beautiful, and God knows I've been young, but never the twain have met.”
Harvey Forbes Fierstein - Arnold Beckoff

“Young boys should never be sent to bed, they always wake up a day older.”
Johnny Depp - Sir James Matthew Barrie