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Quotes About Youth

I died last night. Seventy years too young.
~ Colin Thompson
One is ever young in the presence of the God of Truth, or Truth which is God.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
But you were only sixteen and not far off from the truth, as only sixteen-year-olds can be.
~ Lauren Kate
If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.
~ William Wordsworth
To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes.
~ Harold Russell
Will our Philosophy to later Life Seem but a crudeness of the planet's youth, Our Wisdom but a parasite of Truth?
~ Julian Huxley
The Typical American? He is sent to school Little or much, where he imbibes the rule Of safety first and comfort; in his youth He joins the church and ends the quest of truth.
~ Edgar Lee Masters
Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
When you're young you don't know anything, but you have lot of energy to express yourself. So you make a lot of mistakes and you stumble, but you also get a lot of truth from within.
~ Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?
~ James Russell Lowell
The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on the sea of death. For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but Truth.
~ John Masefield
We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.
~ Joseph Glanvill
And where, on earth, dwell hope and truth? In childhood's uncorrupted heart; Alas! too soon to guileless youth The world doth its dark code impart!
~ Luc de Clapiers
For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire.
~ Matthew Arnold
A lot of young people think they're invincible, but the truth is young people are knuckleheads... Now young people can get insurance for as little as $50 a month, less than the cost of gym shoes.
~ Michelle Obama
Baby boomers selling your rumors of their history, forcein' youth away from the truth of what's real today
~ Mike Watt
Let's roll for justice, let's roll for truth. Let's not let our children grow up fearful in their youth.
~ Neil Young
Young people - there's been very little places in positions of authority in law enforcement for young people's skill sets, but the truth is we need them.
~ Patricia Arquette
Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.
~ Paul Auster
I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful and fresh, Girl Saves Boy is full of the absolute truth-life is complicated. I could not put it down.
~ Rebecca Stead
The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.
~ Sloane Crosley