Quotes About Youth

For those under the age of 45 it seemed that world events had finally contrived a meaningful test of their capacity for conscientious political thought. Many of my acquaintances, I realized, had passed the last decade or two in a state of intellectual and psychic yearning for such a moment — or, if they hadn't, were able to quickly assemble an expert arguer's arsenal of thrusts and statistics and ripostes and gambits and examples and salient facts and rhetorical maneuvers.

A teacher should start from a young person's own present interest, she felt, and lead them into a wider and deeper understanding of the world into which they were going.

Only on Sundays do you come across political scout troops with sandals, walking sticks, and knives. In the woods they do round dances, they rave about nature, and have big brawls with each other. It's a strange, baffling young generation. It covet's the poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, but not his shy piety and love of nature.

E il mondo non era più il vecchio mondo. Tramontava. Ed era nell'ordine delle cose che un'ora prima del suo tramonto le valli avessero ragione dei monti, i giovani dei vecchi, gli stolti dei savi.

And the world was not what it had been. It was at an end. And it was in the disposition of these things that, barely an hour before its end, the valleys and the young and the fools would all be in the right, while the mountains and the old and the wise would all be in the wrong.

Next to the old man's dark gravity, the boy's jingling colorfulness seemed even noisier and more radiant. At

In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears

The Holy Scriptures praise the dew of the morning and the dew of the evening; ros matutinum, ros serotinum! Happy is he who possesses the gift of tears! when young, he will bear flowers; when old, fruit!

Alderpaw realized that he was gaping like a blackbird chick waiting for food.

It's sticking up like a bluebell!" Lionkit's tail slapped against the frozen earth.

Cloudkit's strong and brave," he told her. "And intelligent." And nosy, spoiled, disrespectful

This apprentice has show great courage.

With this life I give you mentoring. Use it well to train the young cats of your Clan.

Tigerkit was bouncing around Lionpaw. "Have I grown?" the kit demanded, stretching himself up to his full height. Dawnkit leaped on her brother, bowling him over. "You must have grown, the amount you eat!

Sorry. I've been in a foul mood since you left. I'm no better than a jealous kit.

It's not many cats who'd try foxhunting before they were even out of the nursery.

No cat is born so wise that it can't learn from its elders. We must guide them where we can.

No kit is too young to learn good hunting skills." Gray

Now Darkstripe," Graypaw hissed to Firepaw under his breath, "is neither young, nor pretty. . . .

you speak from your heart, young firepaw. this will make you a strong warrior one day.

Lionpaw pushed his way through clumps of long grass wet with dew; he shivered as the moisture soaked his fur, and blinked sleep from his eyes. Clouds lay low over the forest, though a growing brightness above the trees showed where the sun was rising.

Have courage, young Fireheart. These are dark times for ThunderClan

young. Don't decide on your future yet. Your paws will walk wherever they must go.

Did he have to sit here, being solemn and serious with Kestrelflight, Mothwing, and Willowshine, just because he was a medicine-cat apprentice? If he was going to be an apprentice longer than any other cat, couldn't he at least have fun?