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Quotes About Youth

Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature.
~ Paul Gauguin
There's no such thing as a grown up person.
~ Andre Malraux
A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
~ Charles Lamb
When I was a boy, I thought scent was contained in dewdrops on flowers and if I got up very early in the morning, I could collect it and make perfume.
~ Oscar de la Renta
I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.
~ Maria Sharapova
I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
~ Talib Kweli
Nature's first green is gold.
~ Robert Frost
Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.
~ Thomas Jefferson
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
~ Vaclav Havel
I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.
~ Aldo Leopold
When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.
~ Dave Grohl
A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.
~ William Shakespeare
Societies as well as people become afraid of change as they grow older. It's human nature. The young have adventures while the old sit at home and nurture their memories.
~ Paul J. McAuley
Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.
~ M. William Phelps
Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men.
~ Robert Browning
The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recall.
~ Louise Wilder
Teens are by nature, experimental learners. There is no real understanding of biology without the lab.
~ Wendy Mogel
Nature has got it all wrong: When you are younger, it should be harder to get pregnant, and as you get older it should be easier.
~ Halle Berry
Dirt rolls from his palm, Blades of grass Tumble from his hair.
~ Gary Soto
Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.
~ George Santayana
I had been performing since I was 5, so it wasn't like I hadn't been on a stage before. I was always older than my age. That's my nature. I've always been a kind of mature kid.
~ Irene Cara
In the woods is perpetual youth.
~ John Muir
All babies are Buddha babies.
~ Joseph Campbell
Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge