Youth Quotes

He no longer loves the person whom he loved ten years ago. I quite believe it. She is no longer the ...

With few exceptions, the Negro youth must work harder and must perform his tasks even better than a ...

The world should not pass judgement upon the Negro, and especially the Negro youth, too quickly or t...

what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you...

I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t ...

What do you do?' she asks, holding out the vest.'What do you do?''What do you do?' she asks, her voi...

But you don't need anything. You have everything,' I tell him.Rip looks at me. 'No I don't.''What?''...

For at this stage in our youth we can hold two kinds of anticipation of love, which seem contradicto...

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can't understand or value her until she goes off with someone ...

A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical cap...

A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical cap...

I guessed she must be, at most, twenty, but there was something about her manner that made me think ...

You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.

Youth and beauty are not accomplishments. They're the temporary happy byproducts of time and/or DNA....

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destinati...

One does silly things when one is twelve.

Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such ...

Surely, she was too young to have so many ghosts.

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, a...

Walking out with the people, I didn't know which was more exciting, the air race, the parachute jump...

What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

I used to have more tolerance for these views, but I am losing patience with what I see. The test of...

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impr...

I know how soon youth would fade and bloom perish, if, in the cup of bliss offered, but one dreg of ...

Youth is gone -- gone -- and will never come back: can't help it.

It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrif...

. . . at eighteen the true narrative of life is yet to becommenced. Before that time we sit listenin...

I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something sma...

Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage...

Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth...

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being....

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.What are brief? today and tomorrow.What are frail? spring blosso...

I am often described to my irritation as a 'contrarian' and even had the title inflicted on me by th...

At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At f...

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our pres...

The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it...

When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are going to be.... You get a little older...

Only youth has a taste of immortality.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

So, after three days of incessant brandy-drinking, he had burned out the youth from his blood, he ha...

And they fear nothing, and they respect nothing, the young don't.

For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And mo...

She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to ...

The warm night claimed her. In a moment it was part of her. She walked on the grass, and her shoes w...

She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... ...

They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fear...

I know that age, it's a particularly obstinate one, and a thousand bogies won't make you fear the fu...

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, wha...

Oh I could be out, rollicking in the ripeness of my flesh and others’, could be drinking things and ...

Why do you want to be on The Real World?-Because I want everyone to witness my youthWhy?-Isn't it go...

Maybe it's the fact the most of the arts here are produced by world-weary and sophisticated older pe...

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

She blinked, sat up, and saw Chris in the bathroom doorway. He'd just gotten out the shower. His hai...

Due to some dim but irresistible notion of the way things are, it is simply not possible, out of ord...

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.

People get bitten. But I won't.' I found myself saying, 'You will, you will. These snakes don't know...

Grown children (an oxymoron, I realize) veer instinctively to extremes: the young scholar is much mo...

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

It's a hard case,' said Paul. 'First, I'm twenty. That means I'm very nervous and ill-at-ease with w...

I don't think I really saw people except as appendages to my needs. It's only now, looking back, tha...

In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his t...

for whenever men are right they are not young

may my heart always be open to littlebirds who are the secrets of livingwhatever they sing is better...

Rickie had a young man's reticence. He generally spoke of “a friend,” “a person I know,” “a place I ...

It was obvious from their expressions that they believed the wellbeing of R.’s inhabitants was endan...

In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and sp...

the much-sought prize of eternal youthIs just arrested growth.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Whom the gods love die young no matter how long they live.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of yo...

Nature felt no change, and was ever young.

I lie down on many a station platform; I stand before many a soup kitchen; I squat on many a bench;-...

we developed a firm, practical feeling of solidarity, which grew, on the battlefield, into the best ...

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little...

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to ta...

The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! Th...

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a chil...

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a perman...

Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

This western-front business couldn’t be done again, not for a long time. The young men think they co...

Her fine high forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, bur...

The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkn...

It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul in...

Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chose...

Each night when she prepared for bed she smeared her face with some new unguent which she hoped illo...

He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly incon...

He was changed as completely as Amory Blaine could ever be changed. Amory plus Beatrice plus two yea...

Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of v...

The grass is full of ghosts tonight.' 'The whole campus is alive with them.' They paused by Little a...

Amory had rather a Puritan conscience. Not that he yielded to it--later in life he almost completely...

Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple...

Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple...

One boy's a boy; two boys be half a boy, and three boys be no boy at all', ran the old country sayin...

Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except... the things people want them ...