Quotes About Youth

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.

A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.

Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.

Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.

If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.

Young man, if that bat comes down, you're out of the game

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.

A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money.

Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

I didn't read comics, growing up. I watched a lot of movies, and those were my comic books. And then, my exposure really increased by becoming affiliated with Spider-Man.

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of young men who are drugged on trumped-up ideals.