Quotes About Youth

People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Parents should learn to stop nagging their children about how well they could do "if you only tried more, or cared more." Trying and caring, in specific areas, is built into people; or else it comes to them later, if they mature properly; or it never comes at all. But it is dead certain that no young person was ever motivated by a querulous, disappointed parent more concerned with his own pride than with the child's ultimate self-actualization.

See him as the child he was.

That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present.

The heart ages last.

Yet if salvation of the world lay solely in old men's caution, why would young people be born?

Other mathematical geniuses, Einstein and Bertrand Russell among them, recount similarly revelatory experiences in early adolescence.

Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.

Was it for pleasure that you followed them Putting off your slippers at the door To dance barefoot and blood-foot in the snow? No. What then? What glamoured you? No glamour at all; Only that I remembered I was young And had to put myself into a song. How could time bear witness that I was tall, Silken, and made for love, if I did not so? I do not know. - Earl Cassilis's Lady

How old do you have to be to think: this is forever?

She herself was a rape victim, attacked at a party when she was fifteen. It was 1963. Nobody talked about sex. Nobody talked about rape.

the inevitable and irrevocable consequences of their quiet cruelty. They were just kids, just girls then. They didn't understand that a single act of careless unkindness would have repercussions long after

Let a young maiden, who would preserve her beauty, preserve the purity of soul, those sweet qualities of the mind, those virtues, in short, by which she first drew her lover to her feet.

When custom has made familiar the charms that are most attractive, when youthful freshness has died away, and with the brightness of domestic life more and more shadows have mingled, then ... and not till then, can the wife say of the husband, "He is worthy of love;" then, first, the husband say of the wife, "She blooms in imperishable beauty."

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.

A father is an image of a young man's destiny, a living testimony of what time may bring to pass.

Our instincts may have even guided us to hide parts of ourselves in order to keep them alive when we were younger.

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth -- that's the way home. neither vodka nor bread just bursts of rage just more new graves -- that's youth and that's love. neither sleep nor waking neither joy nor laughter just tears in the night -- so the rope, paper, knife.

Wszystko to wygl?da?o na egzamin. I ja czu?em si? jak maturzysta. Ale przecie? ca?e ?ycie czu?em si? jak maturzysta, najwy?ej jak student.

Mam wra?enie, jakby ten kraj naprawd? umiera?. -Tyle lat szarpaniny. Zestarzeli?my si?, skapcanieli?my wydaj?c te nasze pó?legalne biuletyny, odezwy, które ma?o kto czyta. Owszem, m?odzie?. Ale m?odzie? ?eni si?, p?odzi dzieci, kupuje ma?ego fiata, wydzier?awia dzia?eczk?, sadzi pomidory. Zalewa nas mieszcza?stwo, sowieckie mieszcza?stwo.

We are young only once, after that we need some other excuse.