Quotes About Youth

the mind of the child is like soft wax, which will take the least stamp you put on it, so let it be your care, who teach, to make the stamp good, that the wax be not hurt.

In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long.

Then autumn comes, with its first flush of youth gone, but ripe and mellow, midway in time between youth and age, with sprinkled grey showing on the temples.

Where did the time go? Yesterday, I was a girl, and today, I suddenly find myself in the autumn of my years with the cold winds of winter breathing down my neck.

And these vicissitudes tell best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Hath won the experience which is deem'd so weighty.

Great artists say that the most beautiful thing in the world is a baby. Well, the next is an old lady, for every wrinkle is a picture.

[T]he drama that is associated usually with the young as they fully begin to enter life—with adolescents, with young men... can also startle and lay siege to the aged.... Maybe the most potent discoveries are reserved for last.

Old Father Time fox-trots across my golden locks!

My younger passions are still listening as I age.

Does age poison us, or do we poison age?

Age swallows our childhood.

Age 14. — ...inwardly, we're much older than other girls our age. Even though I'm only fourteen... I feel I'm more of a person than a child...

Having worked with at risk youth... I noticed that when I was intentionally positive by looking beyond their "fog" and to their light they responded with their genius.

It's never too late to become what you want to be. Unless you want to be younger.

Often have I reckoned up on my birthday the increasing years — the feathers in the broad wing of time — and thought upon the sounding flights of youth...

...it snowed and it snowed. But here a small boy says: "It snowed last year, too. I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea."

The younger brother hath the more wit.

She lived to be twenty years old, and when she died I felt as if I had lost a child.

Don't burn books — let them set young minds on fire.

CHILDHOOD, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth — two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

Child... curly, dimpled lunatic.

Children are one third of our population and all of our future.