75 Movie Quotes about Youth (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Sep 20, 2025

Memorable quotes about youth, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 I was partial to tragedy in my youth. Before experience taught me that life is quite tragic enough without my writing about it.

Burgess Meredith as Ammon in Clash of the Titans (1981)

2 To quote Cicero, rashness is the characteristic of youth, prudence that of mellowed age, and discretion the better part of valor.

Roddy McDowall as VINCENT LF-396 in The Black Hole (1979)

3 We're young! -Oh, well younger. But it's a start!

Bette Midler as Winifred Winnie Sanderson; Bette Midler as The Sanderson Sisters; Bette Midler as Winifred "Winnie" Sanderson in Hocus Pocus

4 Your teenage minds are broad, eager.

Kevin Clash as Splinter in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

5 I was most unfortunate in my youth to come across a vomit-flavored one. And since then, I'm afraid, I've lost my liking for them.

Richard Harris as Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

6 Yes. A fine upstanding youth such as yourself, a person of your unimpeachable moral character is exactly what this kingdom needs.

Scott Weinger as Aladdin in Aladdin (1992)

7 No, no, he is a young man, and young men are passionate. They must say their say, but wiser people must decide. I know you are right.

Alec Guinness as Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia

8 How I envy you your youth. -You're not going to get any younger hanging around here. What do you want?

Frank Sinatra as Danny Ocean in Ocean's 11 (1960)

9 Tell me, colonel... were you ever young? -Yeah. And just as reckless as you.

Clint Eastwood as The Man With No Name in For a Few Dollars More

10 What have you got there? -It's a 2 way radio, sir. The newest thing. -Yeah, kids always got something new that don't work.

Lee Marvin as Sergeant Edgar Millen in Death Hunt

75 Movie Quotes about Youth (+ Sound Clips)

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