Quotes About Youth

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

Today the accent is on youth but the stress is on the parents.

A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.

You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.

#WhenIWasYourAge: It took a week to learn whether your photos came out okay.

My thirst and passion from boyhood... has been for poetry — for poetry in its widest and wildest sense — for poetry untrammelled by the laws of sense, rhyme, or rhythm, soaring through the universe, and echoing the music of the spheres! From my youth, nay, from my very cradle, I have yearned for poetry, for beauty, for novelty, for romancement.

We Poets in our youth begin in gladness: But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.

The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution that would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curse of the world. Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

The story of his youth was a series of bitternesses, as is the case with almost all distinguished men. Poverty sits by their cradle, and keeps watch over them till they have grown up; and this lean nurse remains their true companion through life.

My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old...

The best way to live your life is to go to the other side of the rainbow young, but at a very old age.

I'm a bad girl — I read past my bedtime.

As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.

To me it seems that youth is like spring, an overpraised season — delightful if it happen to be a favoured one, but in practice very rarely favoured and more remarkable, as a general rule, for biting east winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Foolishness, radicalism, morbidity are marks of promising youth, the obvious signs of inward ferment. We should rejoice to find them. They are among the indications of spiritual growth.

An aging man cannot rewrite his youth but a youth may rewrite his own future.

Conservatives say teaching sex education in the public schools will promote promiscuity. With our education system? If we promote promiscuity the same way we promote math or science, they've got nothing to worry about.

...he certainly made those long legs go! Hoppity-skip he went, hoppity-skip, down the street, and around the corner...

If you've lost your enthusiasm, there's no better place to find it than on a skipping excursion. And, you may just find your lost youth as well!

With a light heart and a bounding step, Lucy was skipping...

Daily, with her school-books in her satchel, this little cherub passed the quaint old bell tower, always skipping merrily along and warbling a plaintive air.

The little boy was coming home from school. He was skipping merrily along, singing to himself and swinging his bag of books at arm's length, while he kept time with his nimble little feet to a song he had been learning in his class that day.

D'ya ever go for a midnight skip Or an after-dark skinny dip? Exercise your inner child at night, It's twice as fun than in daylight.