Youth Quotes
It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.
Do not be too sure, young fellows, That you are better than your ancestors.
I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.
I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter?
Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.
Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore
Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.
That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.
Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect.
He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.
For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.
Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.
The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.
If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.
There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.
Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.
Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.
In youth, the greatest success is to see the world from the eyes of the aged people and to feel exactly how they feel.
I feel sad for him. Sad for the boy bound to the killer. I am sad for the youth betrayed by their leaders for symbols and flags and war and power.
Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful.
Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.
The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for his authority.
I grew up playing games, and I remember Christmas 1981 when my dad got us an Intellivision, and we all sat around and played 'Astrosmash' for hours on end. It was a big part of my youth.
In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.
To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?
You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the evenings. They've closed all the social centers. There's not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on.
New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.
I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.
The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories / Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.
As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'
Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.
O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?
I have remained a simple fellow who asks nothing of the world; only my youth is gone - the enchanting youth that forever walks on air.
The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.
I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.
Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.