Quotes About Youth

I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them.

At fifteen, I have taken up the burdens of a woman, and have come to feel I am one. Furthermore, I am glad of it. For I now no longer have the time to fall into such sins as I committed as a girl, when hours that were my own to spend spread before me like a gift.

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy, but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! O wise young judge, how I do honor thee!

A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love.

Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in. Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me; Say I'm growing old, but add Jenny kissed me.

It's not wrinkles. I just have too much skin for the size of my face.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowhip with other human beings as we take our place among them.

We must always have old memories and young hopes.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty, nothing at all.

As full of spirit as the month of May.

I hope I look as good as my mother does when I reach the age she says she isn't.

Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer.

I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.

Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eter1nal youth.

Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!

Time is the subtle thief of youth.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes along.

Happiness is ... usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

When I was fourteen, I was the oldest I ever was. ... I've been getting younger ever since.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.