YOUTH QUOTES VI

quotations about youth

Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.

LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON

Ethel Churchill: or, The Two Brides


The category of youth is the product of innumerable forms of assessment, intervention and normalisation, as well as the vehicle for achieving a range of social and governmental objectives. In addition, youth is not a singular entity, but rather an entire range of sub-categories: the 'delinquent' youth, the 'subcultural' youth, the 'at-risk' youth.

GORDON TAIT

Making Sense of Mass Education


With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

GLEN DUNCAN

I, Lucifer

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My youth is the foundation of me.

KHALID

"American Teen"


Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Table-Talk

Tags: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance, as if she were a bud first opening her heart with wondering rapture to the morning. Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede


Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever?

ALPHAVILLE

"Forever Young"


Let us die young or let us live forever
We don't have the power but we never say never
Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip
The music's for the sad men

ALPHAVILLE

"Forever Young"


Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick,
Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

The Night of the Iguana

Tags: Tennessee Williams


Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth.

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Lodore

Tags: Mary Shelley


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

"Fortune's Child", Lapham's Quarterly: Youth

Tags: Lewis H. Lapham


Youth is not like a new garment which we can keep fresh and fair by wearing sparingly; youth, while we have it, we must wear daily, and it will fast wear away.

JOHN FOSTER

John Foster: Life and Thoughts


Youth is when you are supposed to question who you are and what you believe, when the values and personhood given to you by your society and family are subject to critical examination so that you can redefine your own being.

JOE MARIANI

"On snow and God and Swarthmore", Swarthmore Phoenix, March 16, 2017


It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

ARTHUR C. CLARKE

2010: Odyssey Two

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A youth, like a tree, needs pruning.

WIGGINS

attributed, Day's Collacon


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

Tags: Stefan Zweig


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


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

JULIAN BARNES

The Sense of an Ending

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Heh? Eh? Our youth is dead.
From the minute we discover it with eyes closed
Advancing into mountain light.
Ouch.

JOHN ASHBERY

"Our Youth Is Dead", The Tennis Court Oath: A Book of Poems

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

CONRAD AIKEN

"Youth"

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