Pastoral Resources

I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.

My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.

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

The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'.

Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

My life has ever been devoted to her service from my youth up, though never before in a cause like this - a cause for which I would most cheerfully risk and lay down my life.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.

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.

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.

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes.