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Quotes About Youth

Learning suits youth, the pleasure of teaching--old age.
~ Unknown
Hâlâ çok gençtim ve insanl???n büyük ço?unlu?unun aptalca hikâyelere ve yalanlara inanacak derecede cahil olu?u beni çok ?a??rt?yordu. Dünyadaki misyonumun hakikat yolunda çabalay?p insanlar?n gözlerini açmak, onlar? yan?lg?lar?ndan dolay?s?yla da sahtekârlar?n elinde oyunca olmaktan kurtarmak oldu?u fikrine kap?lm??t?m.
~ Unknown
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.
~ Vladimir Lenin
I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organisations in particular, might be summed up in a single word: learn.
~ Unknown
No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk-handsome, twentytwoyearold.
~ Vladimir Mayakovsky
As is invariably noted at the beginning of positively all literary biographies, the little boy was a glutton for books.... For his first writing exercise he painstakingly reproduced: "Obey your sovereign, honor him and submit to his laws," and the compressed ball of his index finger thus remained ink-stained forever. Now the thirties are over and the forties have begun.
~ Vladimir Nabakov
Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their nature, which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as "nymphets."
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as nymphets.
~ Unknown
On one of his comrades depicted in the book:] "Sasha was my friend … Like me, he was 19. But he didn't come home. He was killed 12 hours after this photo was taken.
~ Unknown
Would you be always young? Then be an Anarchist, and live with the faith of hope, though you be old.
~ Voltairine de Cleyre
That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees – Those dying generations – at their song, The salmon?falls, the mackerel?crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unageing intellect.
~ W. B. Yeats
I did not, but i saw a young girl, and she had the walk of a queen.
~ W. B. Yeats
And cried, 'Before I am old I shall have written him one Poem maybe as cold And passionate as the dawn.
~ W. B. Yeats
My dog back home, Molly…" CJ said to me, and her voice trailed off. She sighed. "I needed Molly so much, Max. I was younger when I got her, and stuff at home … it wasn't so great. But you—it's different with you. You need me. I just wish Jillian could see that!
~ W. Bruce Cameron
So, what about new friends? You could make new friends," Maggie Rose suggested. Bryan snorted. "Like that's easy. By the time you're in fifth grade, all the kids have best friends already. Nobody needs a new one." He got up. "Come on, Brewster.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Sometimes we went to town to the dog park, and while I was always glad to see the other dogs, I thought the younger ones were juvenile with their relentless playing and wrestling.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Children should neither be seen nor heard from – ever again.
~ W. C. Fields
Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them -- the one, in fact, which is not a mask.
~ W. H. Auden
Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction.
~ W. H. Auden
Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse's flowers will not last, Nurses to their graves are gone, But the prams go rolling on.
~ W. H. Auden
As long as I love Beauty I am young.
~ W. H. Davies