Quotes About Youth

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

Children are our greatest natural resource.

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

Inmiddels is Luk bezig aan Ilse een verhaal te vertellen, over een kapper. Dat die dood is. 'En nog zo jong,' hoor ik Luk zeggen. 'Hoe oud was hij?' vraagt Ilse. 'Dat weet ik niet. Veertig. Tweeënveertig.' 'Zo jong nog?' 'Ja. Ik weet het niet. Drieënveertig misschien. Ik weet het echt niet precies hoe oud.

What troopsOf generous boys in happiness thus bred—Saturnians through life's Tempe led,Went from the North and came from the South,With golden mottoes in the mouth,To lie down midway on a bloody bed.

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.

Nothing too bad could happen around children drinking milkshakes.

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they do not read.

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.

Here you have learned the theories of life," continued the Headmaster, resuming the thread of his discourse, "but after all, life is not a matter of theories. Life is a matter of facts. It calls on the young and the old alike to face these facts, even though they are hard and sometimes unpleasant. Your problem, for example, is to slay dragons.

The only things that merited reflection in the gorgeous young man's eyes were death and destruction—and those alone.

Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.

Matilda told such dreadful lies,It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes;Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth,Had kept a strict regard for truth,Attempted to believe Matilda:The effort very nearly killed her.

Fasal liked to fight; Jiaan was good at planning. Together, Jiaan thought sourly, they almost made a whole officer. And if you added Jiaan's eighteen years to Fasal's seventeen, you had someone old enough to command an army as well.

I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.

But who would hold up his head, if people judged us by what we were like at twenty?" 398

Sólo eres joven una vez en la vida, dicen, ¿pero no se alarga mucho el tiempo? Más años de los que puedes soportar.

The old always think the world is getting worse; it is for the young, equipped with historical facts, to point out that, compared with 1509, or even 1939, life in 2009 is sweet as honey.

I remembered the young man with his broad white smile and his ashen hair streaked with gold; the basted perfection of his firm flesh, and the grace of his hand clasping mine. I slotted the notes back inside, slid my purse away, and wondered: which of my defects did he notice first?

In his student days he was known for a sharp slanderous tongue, for irreverance to his seniors, for drinking and gaming for high stakes. But who would hold up his head, if people judged us by what we were like at twenty?