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Youth Quotes & Sayings

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Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure. — Lewis H. Lapham

This rubicund youth, with his blunt features, appeared for all the world to have a tomato instead of a head. — Marcel Proust

The radio of my youth ... is now a quaint memory replaced by computer hard drives. — Phil Donahue

Vampires are so sexy and powerful - they're so otherworldly; they have eternal life and youth. — Jessica Clark

Any society that does not succeed in tapping into the energy and creativity of its youth will be left behind. — Kofi Annan

[Y]ou're young. Young takes care of everything. — Neil Simon

I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can't imagine them properly now. — Jo Walton

Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living. — Carey Williams

To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that. — Willa Cather

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold. — Robert Browning

Oh, youth is a wicked, cruel thing - eating miracles with its breakfast and not knowing they are not porridge. — Elizabeth Bibesco

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. — Oscar Wilde

There grows in the North Country a certain kind of youth of whom it may be said that he is born to be a Londoner. — Arnold Bennett

I aspire to be
an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild youth. — Atticus Poetry

When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth. — W. Somerset Maugham

Youth is a disease from which we must never recover. — J. Williams

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. (Sonnet XCVIII) — William Shakespeare

I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth. — Bea Arthur

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era. — Pierre Salinger

I don't need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would. — Charlotte Eriksson

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

our youth must be shown that not all worthwhile things are instantly accessible and that there are levels of sensibility unknown to them. — Neil Postman

Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young
We loved each other and were ignorant. — William Butler Yeats

While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward. — Djuna Barnes

Loving someone is not tough but the real courage is to be with that person forever. — Anuj Tiwari

youth is the one
thing worth having. — Oscar Wilde

One does silly things when one is twelve. — Cassandra Clare

Oh, the cockiness of youth. How I missed mine. — Karen Marie Moning

blunt conclusion was that "Christianity has an image problem" among American youth.48 Similarly, — Robert P. Jones

I am living a simple life with a complicated mind and I have yet to find a state of mind where I feel safe with who I am, where I am, with what I do. — Charlotte Eriksson

I had only four hairs worth shaving, but I managed to inflict five cuts attempting to remove them. — Troy Soos

Your life is not meant to be lived in a way to satisfy someone's expectation out of you! Live your life in your own way. — Avijeet Das

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it. — Henri Matisse

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation. — Voltaire

I love movies to death. I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies. — Amy Heckerling

It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside. — Colum McCann

I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem — Dante Gabriel Rossetti

A fantastic Riot Boy, Trash the Senses..
-Thurston Moore — David Rat

I remember my youth ... the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men. — Joseph Conrad

The much-sought prize of eternal youth
Is just arrested growth. — Edgar Lee Masters

Today in America vast concourses of youth are flocking to our colleges, eager for something, just what they do not know. — Learned Hand

I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name. — Moliere

Discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it. — Benjamin Franklin

Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible from ever coming true? — James Branch Cabell

It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon. — Peter Ustinov

No man is too good to be the athletic coach for youth. — Amos Alonzo Stagg

Because when you're young, you don't really believe you'll ever be anything other than young. — Meg Wolitzer

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. — Jacqueline Bisset

People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture. — Charlaine Harris

Only to youth will spring be spring. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's 1940 and no one laughs at the Hitler Youth now. — Anthony Doerr

Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age? — William Shakespeare

I love the optimism on the shores of youth, where time hasn't yet eroded faith. — Amy Neftzger

Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before. — Ban Ki-moon

Having been a singer in a band, back in my youth, music is really important to me. — Mick Garris

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

In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind. — Sandra Cisneros

I warned you, he says, I warned you, Harry, but youth is deaf. Youth is careless. — John Updike

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

The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth. — N. R. Narayana Murthy

I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer. — Jerry N. Uelsmann

The madness of youth had made me unafraid. — Lauren DeStefano

Say what you will, dear sister, we do what we do for the promise of our youth. Yet it is always they who scar beneath the points of daggers. — Chris Galford

Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth. — John Buchan

Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures. — Philip James Bailey

Between video games and texting, how do our youth find the time to know everything? — L.M. Fields

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so. — Ru Freeman

But there was little heart to our lust,
only the confusion of not knowing
how long we'd have in our bodies. — Joseph Bathanti

To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade. — John Milton

The secret to youth is to fill your mind with beauty! Amen — Linda Ballou

In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively. — Gene Tunney

Who can know the heart of youth except youth itself. — Patti Smith

The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever. — E. Lockhart

We'll never be as young as we are tonight. — Chuck Palahniuk

There's nothing that keeps it's youth
So far as I know, but a tree and the truth
— Ogden Nash

It is the courage, the insistence, the ruthless force of youth. — Agatha Christie

As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth. — Thelma Golden

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted. — Andre Malraux

Youth is given up to illusions. — Kate Chopin

The heart is the real fountain of youth. — Mark Twain

Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own. — Victor Hugo

The point of the mission trip is to invite young people to act in ways that witness to the promise of God's action, which will make all things new. — Andrew Root

I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking. — Portia De Rossi

So it is not age that is threatened by youth, but the other way around. Youth is threatened by age. — George Sheehan

Through all the years of my sad youth Huysmans remained a companion, a faithful friend; never once did I doubt him, — Michel Houellebecq

I grew up loving TV so much. It was such an integral part of my youth, and I was completely an Emmy geek. — Jon Cryer

I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs. — Alexander Payne

As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay. — Mason Cooley

I know the youth of India. They are not merely asking for things. The youth wants to stand of their own feet and live a life of pride and dignity. — Narendra Modi

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! — John Milton

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. — William Shakespeare

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others. — F Scott Fitzgerald

You have money, fame, youth, beauty, talent. That's a good start ... for feeling good. — Leonard Cohen

I think it's when I won the Youth Olympics I thought, 'I can really get gold in London.' — Jade Jones

The curse of having young people about the house was that they were always so redolent of possibility. — Anna Quindlen

We are so scornful when we are young! — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik