Youth Quotes

Live as long as you may the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamil...

I have hope in children. In children and warriors. In children who fuck like children and warriors w...

You are still young enough to think that torment of the spirit is a splendid thing, a sign of a supe...

The heads of strong old age are beautiful / Beyond all grace of youth

But I recall the springtime of the world as though it were yesterday—those days when we rode togethe...

The joy and laughter and youth they brought was an antidote to the somberness enveloping his flat, t...

We may say that all ages are dangerous to all people, in this dangerous life we live. But the thirti...

We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,We are dropping down the ladder run...

A DEAD STATESMANI could not dig: I dared not rob:Therefore I lied to please the mob.Now all my lies ...

God help us for we knew the worst too young.

Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do.

I felt so stupid and young, and at the same time something was cracking open inside me, or maybe it ...

In my heart, I am American, and I believe I have a free will and can take charge of my own destiny.

We place such crazy importance on physical appearance in our image-obsessed culture, on youth and be...

The sun, like a golden knife, was steadily paring away the edge of the shade beside the walls.The st...

When he was young, he told her, each phase of his life, each self he tried on, had seemed reassuring...

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been ...

Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young.

Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.

What defines you isn't how many times you crash but the number of times you get back.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical...

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

The Little Boy and the Old ManSaid the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon."Said the old man, "I ...

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 2...

Questions invaded my mind and I was young and skeptical, wanting to believe in the power of the mind...

From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's...

He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say t...

I did not dread the dark winter as people do when they have lost their youth and live alone in some ...

All the sanguine guesswork of youth is there, and the silliness; all the novelty of being alive and ...

The phrase "after-life" was also vaguely confused with going to church and not wanting to be dead - ...

If youth knew if age could.

In many criminals, especially youthful ones, it is possible to detect a very powerful sense of guilt...

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but th...

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life a...

The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything s...

But if I am young, thou shouldest look to my merits, not to my years.

Arrived at an age when others had already long been married and had children and held important posi...

A brief life burns brightly.

Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the ...

Tyler rolls out of bed, sniffs the armpits of yesterday's T-shirt, tosses it aside, gets another out...

...it was another year or two before I discovered that drat and draft were different words. During t...

One of the few things my father says when he's had a few that I agree with is that kids don't have m...

It's the people who aren't scared who die young.

A sense of solidarity among fifteen-to-thirty-year-olds would be a menace to civilized society even ...

Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it'...

I have passed English medical examinations in Hong Kong... In my youth, I experienced overseas studi...

My youth was the most stubborn, peremptory part of myself. In my most relaxed moments, it governed m...

Mrs Guinea answered my letter and invited me to lunch at her home. That was where I saw my first fin...

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by prete...

In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.

But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious pro...

Now that lilacs are in bloomShe has a bowl of lilacs in her roomAnd twists one in her fingers while ...

In those days I coercedOracular assuranceIn my favour out of every sign.

...love, all at once and much, much too completely. It's like you suddenly turn a blinding light on ...

Of course, you were crowned with laurel in the beginning, your gold hair was wreathed with laurel, b...

I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding – not even that – no. Just for some recog...

Chance, you've gone past something you couldn't afford to go past; your time, your youth, you've pas...

It was dawning on the wizards that they were outside the University, at night and without permission...

Carrie felt this as a personal reproof. She read "Dora Thorne," or had a great deal in the past. It ...

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

I had a neat stock of fixed opinions, but they dropped away one by one; and the further I get the le...

All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; ...

His games have a deeper meaning and fascination that adults can no longer fathom and require nothing...

To be young means to be original, to have remained nearer to the sources of life: it means to be abl...

Pardon all runners,All speechless, alien winds,All mad waters.Pardon their impulses,Their wild attit...

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

What though youth gave love and roses Age still leaves us friends and wine.

For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inesca...

Some are young people who don't know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afr...

Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. 'I am n...

Shandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his ...

Lots of teenage girls have taken comfort under the wings of half-closeted gay boys.

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be i...

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

They were Archer's second set of children an d paragons of contemporary teenage cynicism. They enjoy...

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in lif...

Why, I wondered, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, who ought ther...

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

In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there is something of everything; ...

To love and be loved, that is the miracle of youth

The young need discipline and a full bookcase.

Running in the wind, in the pollen and dust, a flower in flight

For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my you...

Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity an...

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know the...

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know the...

It’s hard not to be impatient with the absurdity of the young; they tell us that two and two make fo...

What ever happened to the passion we all had to improve ourselves, live up to our potential, leave a...

O you youths, Western youths,So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,Plain ...

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,Regardless of others, ever regardful of ot...

He seems, in manner and rank, above the class of young men who take that turn; but I remember hearin...

Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the yo...

If ever sorrow and suffering set their profaning marks on the youth and beauty of Miss Fairlie’s fac...

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wi...

She bid me take love easy as the leaves grow on the tree But I being young and foolish with her ...

Ah, we shall never have a real aristocracy while this plebeian reluctance to live upon a parent or a...

What though the radiance which was once so brightBe now for ever taken from my sight,Though nothing ...