Youth Quotes

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, w...

Most young people have rebellious, anti-authoritarian impulses. They don't like being told what, whe...

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don'...

Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.

The younger people with the ache of youth were eating all the cheese.

She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken alou...

[T]hat mutual jealousy, that intolerantly keen edge of criticism, that irrational hunger for a beaut...

Eight-and-twenty years,' said I, 'I have lived, and never a ghost have I seen as yet.'The old woman ...

[H]e was still young enough to think that there was something fundamentally inhuman about thinking m...

I didn't want to be educated. It wasn't the right time of my life for concentration, it really wasn'...

...summer was the swiftness with which Dill would reach up and kiss me when Jem was not looking, the...

Anyway, I forgot all about him once I graduated. So quickly and easily, it was weird. What was it ab...

I was much younger, much hungrier, much more alone. But I was myself, pared down to the essentials.

It seemed unreasonable, unfair, that a woman so young and beautiful should be so exhausted. Of cours...

Hey, you know that thing Dostoyevesky wrote on gambling? It's like that. When you're surrounded by e...

The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow y...

We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.

If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backward while there is youth in the world. Youth may be...

The hardest period in life is one’s twenties. It’s a shame because you’re your most gorgeous, and yo...

Yes you may depend upon it he has the ability! He is the younger generation that stands ready to kn...

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

The youth gets together this material to build a bridge to the moon or perchance a palace or templ...

The great fact all the while however had been the incalculability; since he had supposed himself, fr...

With favoring winds, o'er sunlit seas,We sailed for the Hesperides,The land where golden apples grow...

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

There was an old belief that in the embersOf all things their primordial form exists, And cunning al...

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams With its illusions aspirations dreams! Book of Beginn...

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilig...

It is too late! Ah, nothing is too lateTill the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.Cato learned Gr...

Sadly as some old mediaeval knightGazed at the arms he could no longer wield,The sword two-handed an...

A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud ...

Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.

Muoth was right. On growing old, one becomes more contented than in one's youth, which I will not th...

It was a strange business and it made a sad and curious impression on me; everything that had belong...

We know from several statements of Knecht's that he wanted to write the former Master's biography, b...

...the Master and the boy followed each other as if drawn along the wires of some mechanism, until s...

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy ...

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpleton...

What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the s...

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it...

It was always the view of my parents," Emily said, "that hot weather encouraged loose morals among y...

He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience f...

But when I was an energetic self-important 10-year-old and found myself in a roomful of grownups, I ...

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were...

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty o...

In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth...

Who I was was not acceptable to black L.A. youth: the way I spoke and my sense of humor. Everybody e...

When you're young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time yo...

O youth! youth! you go your way heedless, uncaring – as if you owned all the treasures of the world;...

O youth! youth! you have no concerns, you possess, as it were, all the treasures of the universe, ev...

O youth! youth! you have no concerns, you possess, as it were, all the treasures of the universe, ev...

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age,...

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be ...

We were young, thoughtless - carried away with our own cleverness

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be ...

What more is required than a kind of stupid, insensitive doggedness, as lover, as writer, together w...

See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.

And because I found it in my youth, the bar was that much more sacred, its image clouded by that spe...

You dont have to know a soul to know what I know --- to expect what I'm expecting --- to feel yourse...

Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.

When I looked at them sitting around me, the church in the distance, beyond that our school, with th...

That's how life works. You know it when you know it.They're nineteen and in love. Alone except for e...

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot af...

My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful.

…for what after all is Youth and Beauty?

Young people do not like to be always thwarted.

The joy of the young is to disobey - but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

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

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes they turn Like marigolds toward the sunny side.

You are young," said my father. "You won't get any younger even if you clean your teeth twice a day....

Ah, those foolish days, those foolish days when we were unselfish and pure-minded; those foolish day...

In my youth, the question chiefly important to me was—What sort of man shall I decide to be? At nine...

He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly bec...

While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help...

I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and soph...

It did not occur to me to call a doctor, because I knew none, and although it did occur to me to cal...

Of course the activists—not those whose thinking had become rigid, but those whose approach to revol...

I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young p...

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest on...

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I'v...

And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.

Youth to youth, like the dragon-flies chasing each other, and love like the sun warming them through...

We were in a phase, through television and the movies, of living only vicariously. Even faintly sord...

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms tastes and interests which...

Phineas created an atmosphere in which I continued now to live, a way of sizing up the world with er...

When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We d...

Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's ab...