YOUTH QUOTES VII

quotations about youth

Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!

LORD BYRON

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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A youth, like a tree, needs pruning.

WIGGINS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?

JULIAN BARNES

The Sense of an Ending

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Time ever mocks all youthful hopes;
He laughs at ever plan youth makes;
He buries fame and honor deep
In grave of hope--too late youth wakes.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"Time's Ravages"

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This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.

ROBERT F. KENNEDY

speech at University of Cape Town, South Africa, Jun. 6, 1966


Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


It is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by an emotion it can never have enough of it.

STEFAN ZWEIG

Beware of Pity

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For youth, everything is sport.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

attributed, Day's Collacon

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A country that betrays its youth is not going to survive.

DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH

"How government policy disfavors the young", MPR News, March 14, 2017


Youth yearns to youth, full blood loves full blood only.

CONRAD AIKEN

"Youth"

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There is in youth a purity of character which, when once touched and defiled, can never be restored; a fringe more delicate than frost-work, and which, when torn and broken, can never be re-embroidered.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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O Youth! flame earnest, still aspire,
With energies immortal!
To many a heaven of Desire,
Our yearning opes a portal!
And tho' Age wearies by the way,
And hearts break in the furrow,
We'll sow the golden grain Today--
The Harvest comes tomorrow.

GERALD MASSEY

"Today and Tomorrow"

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In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.

GEORGE ELIOT

Felix Holt

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Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.

SARAH ADDISON ALLEN

The Girl Who Chased the Moon


Youth isn't wasted on, or reserved for, the young.

JULIAN KIMBLE

"At Trillectro, youth is not wasted", Washington Post, August 28, 2016


Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough.

LORD CHESTERFIELD

attributed, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign


What is that to him that reaps not harvest of his youthful joys,
Though the deep heart of existence beat forever like a boy's?

ALFRED TENNYSON

Locksley Hall

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It was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

All the Pretty Horses

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Youth is the ultimate limited resource.

WILLIAM SHATNER

The Ashes of Eden

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Youth is no excuse for sloppiness.

LISA GARDNER

The Perfect Husband

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