Quotes About Youth

People think that I'm tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.

Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.

I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.

Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

The truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in obligations and responsibilities.

The whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth.

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest!

Youth is the only thing worth having.

Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small

There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.

But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.

I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth.

Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.

As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.

Irving Penn said he didn't want to photograph anyone under 60, and I think there is some truth about it.

It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.

As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents.

A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.