Youthful Aspirations Quotes

Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.

When I was in my teens, I was very, very keen on being the author of a book. What the book was was secondary. I wanted it to be in hardback. I didn't care how thick or thin it was, and I didn't actually care what it was about.

O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?

When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.

My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Just when you think you should start accepting that you're becoming an adult, all your childhood fantasies come true.

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

When I was younger, humans went to the moon when I was about 4 years old, and I imagined that as I got older and became an adult that traveling in space was going to be fairly common and something that we all did. So I grew up believing that I'll be an astronaut just like these guys were that were going to the moon.

What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.

When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.

Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.

To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.

Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.

When I was younger, I actually wanted to be a CIA agent. Really. I even did the online questionnaire.

Had I been more religious in my youth, I might have become a pastor, for it was the pastoral role I'd sought.

When I was younger, I used to visualise myself scoring wonder goals, stuff like that.

If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footballer or an actor,' I'd have said: 'Well, can't I be a footballing actor?'

To me, what I love about the draft is; first, you see the young men who are realizing their dreams that they've worked so hard for. That's a pretty cool thing. You saw the emotion from some of these guys the other day. And then, the second thing is this total sense of hope and optimism. And, I think that's great for everybody.

I want to grow up, live my life, experience things, make movies about those experiences and by the time the audience catches up, hopefully they'll have a movie there that helps them get through that next phase when they discover life isn't always like High School Musical.

Every new generation in its hour of dawn, filled with the dreams of youth, its thirsts, intoxications and enthusiasms, thinks itself called upon to impel humanity towards heights unmeasured, believes itself an appointed pathfinder, a thinker of thoughts, a doer of deeds greater than any of those which came before. Every new generation desires beauty, but a beauty all its own.

When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little different.

I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life." "The firefly's ?" said the minstrel. "The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.