Quotes About Youth

How could an unlearned youth such as White write with such wisdom and resignation, while I, brimful of philosophy and book learning, was unable to still my heart into patience?

Frédéric Bazille, Young Woman with Peonies.

But then again, I was not fifteen anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them.

She'd been married at twelve, before her menarche, and had been pregnant or lactating ever since.

young as they were, skinny, sometimes shoeless rural boys, most from farms too poor to afford slaves. It had seemed to him an evil fate, a geographical accident, that had forced them to take up arms in what was, to him, a war to secure the rich man's wealth.

The moment a child answers the question 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' he is halfway to being an adult.

Nothing is so beautiful as Spring- When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing; The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling. (From "Spring")

Ik heb intussen het 3e Hoofdstuk voltooid, vol verguldsel, paars licht, Eeeuwig onvervulde liefdesverlangens, Jongens op bromfietsen, motregen en met oude canapé kleden behangen grotten. Het leven is veel groter dan ik het ooit zou kunnen beschrijven. En God is gek op me.

Going to school, it felt like you were in a meat grinder. It chews you up and pours out this mess that can't function.

So many people treat you like you're a kid that you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.

Yes, he was an old man but, gosh, those muscled limbs of his, the strength in them. She remembered how vast he had seemed, nude in the little cottage bedroom, like a giant folded up and tucked into a shoebox.

Are you sure there's no way of getting the lad's fancies out of his head? There are so many other things a young manwom can take up nowadays. What about hairdressing? Beard-perms and hair-sets are so fashionable at the moment.

He who wants to warm himself in old age must build a fireplace in his youth

The old forget, the young don't know.

When the boy is growing he has a wolf in his belly.

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.

We are always the same age inside.

You are all a lost generation.

Como todas las grandes pestes, también esta ínfima peste mía terminaba con una lluvia. Junto con el agua que manaba de mi pelo y me surcaba las mejillas, el mal se desprendía de mí, partía. Pero con él, todo resto de orgullo; con él, tal vez, la juventud.

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

It is shallow desires which make a young man bold; strong desires confound him.