Quotes About Youth

Tierna, esbelta. graciosa, encantadora, juguetona y coqueta. aquella muchacha de diecinueve años se convierte desde el primer momento en la diosa del rococó, el prototipo de la moda y del gusto dominantes

All these young French poets, like the rest of the people, lived for the joy of living in its sublimest form, the creative joy in work.

Now they both smiled. The sweet, light fragrance of a first youthful, half-unspoken love, with all its intoxicating tenderness, had awoken in them like a dream on which you reflect ironically when you wake, although you really wish for nothing more than to dream it again, to live in the dream. The beautiful dream of young love that ventures only on half-measures, that desires and dares not ask, promises and does not give. They

Una de las misteriosas leyes de la vida es que descubrimos siempre tarde sus auténticos y más esenciales valores: la juventud, cuando desaparece; la salud, tan pronto como nos abandona, y la libertad, esa esencia preciosísima de nuestra alma, sólo cuando está a punto de sernos arrebatada o ya nos ha sido arrebatada.

La niñez, pálida, perdida, anodina. Padre y madre, el hermano, la esposa. Tres migajas de amistad, dos copas de placer, un sueño de gloria, un zurrón de agravios. Fogosas, embisten por sus venas las imágenes de la juventud perdida.

Ä°nsan genç olunca ateÅŸin ve ölümün her zaman baÅŸkalar?na s?çrayaca??n? düÅŸünür.

Aquí quiere vivir por sí misma, sin estorbos; no ser otra cosa sino la mujer joven, desmesuradamente adulada y adorada, que, en medio de mil superfluas ocupaciones, se olvida de todo, del reino, del esposo, de la corte, del tiempo, y a veces -y éstos son acaso sus minutos más dichosos- hasta de sí misma. Con Trianón, este espíritu desocupado ha encontrado por fin una ocupación, un juego, que se renueva constantemente.

nur in ersten Jugendjahren scheint Zufall noch mit Schicksal identisch. Später weiß man, dass die eigentliche Bahn des Lebens von innen bestimmt war; wie kraus und sinnlos unser Weg von unseren Wünschen abzuweichen scheint, immer führt er uns doch schließlich zu unserem unsichtbaren Ziel.

Was it not intelligible that the new generation lost every trace of respect? It doubted parents, politicians, teachers; every decree, every proclamation of the State was read with a dubious eye. The post-war generation emancipated itself with a violent wrench from the established order and revolted against every tradition, determined to mold its own fate, to abandon bygones and to soar into the future.

Lightly, caressingly, Marie Antoinette picked up the crown as a gift. She was still too young to know that life never gives anything for nothing, and that a price is always exacted for what fate bestows. She did not think she would have to pay a price. She simply accepted the rights of her royal position and performed no duties in exchange. She wanted to combine two things which are, in actual human experience, incompatible; she wanted to reign and at the same time to enjoy.

The world that our children will inherit is going to look substantially different, very quickly, than the world we have today. It's alarming.

I suppose it's amazing how quick life goes by when you have children.

Be innocent, wise and ninety-five.

Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.

Richard had realized, not that Elfine was beautiful, but that he loved Elfine. (Young men frequently need this fact pointing out to them, as Flora knew by observing the antics of her friends.)

His young man's limbs, sleek in their dark male pride, seemed to disdain the covering offered them by the brief shorts and striped jersey. His body might have been naked, like his full, muscled throat, which rose, round and proud as the male organ of a flower, from the neck of his sweater.

My salad days, when I was green in judgment.

Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.

I'm a little distracted by this English French American Boy Masterpiece.

High male earnings have also become less important to women. A 2001 poll in the United States found that 80 percent of women in their twenties believed that having a husband who can talk about his feelings was more important than having one who makes a good living.11

Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.

The young are not afraid of telling the truth.

Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp

The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.