Quotes About Youth

The first thing I do with a young fighter," D'Amato said, "is explain fear. Most people don't know much about fear. They think it's a sign of being yellow. But fear is normal. It's like fire. If you let it get out of control, it will destroy you and everything around you. If you can learn how to control it, you can make it work for you. Fear is just nature's way of preparing you to fight."7

Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees it as it really is, and cuts his throat. If this be so, I want to be very drunk. The great thing is to live, to clutch at our existence and race away with it in some great and enthralling pursuit. Above all, I must beware of all ultimate questions- they are too maddeningly unanswerable- let me eschew philosophy and burn Omar.

It is jolly to be regarded as a wicked, libidinous youth by an aged maiden Aunt.

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

In my youth I believed in somewhere else I put my faith in travel now I am becoming my own tree

As though it had always been forbidden to remember each of us grew up knowing nothing about the beginning

As those who are gone now keep wandering through our words sounds of paper following them at untold distances so I wake again in the old house where at times I have believed that I was waiting for myself and many years have gone taking with them the semblance of youth reason after reason ranges of blue hills who did I think was missing those days neither here nor there my own dog waiting to be known

Late in May as the light lengthens toward summer the young goldfinches flutter down through the day for the first time to find themselves among fallen petals cradling their day's colors in the day's shadows of the garden beside the old house

In my youth I believed in somewhere else I put faith in travel now I am becoming my own tree — W.S. Merwin, from "Wild Oats," The Moon Before Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014)

I'm a tulip in a cup. I stand no chance of growing up

Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.

We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case.

Children should be given the chance to play instruments, to sing.

We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.

Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.

Lessons hide in his wrinkles. Bells ding in the oldness of eyes. Did he by, any chance, tell children that there are such monstrous things as peace and goodwill...a corrupter of youth no doubt.

The young people have read my book. Now I have no chance.

. . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters . . . glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in.

Every generation gets a chance to change the world Pity the nation that won't listen to your boys and girls Cos the sweetest melody is the one we haven't heard

I really get a chance to be a normal kid.

I had a chance to go to Italy when I was younger and that would have been tough because of the language. America is easier but I really loved it.

I've achieved many of my dreams, and I want to see that some others get a chance to, especially younger Texans.

Kids who drink alcohol, fairly regularly before they're 14 have a 48% chance... of becoming alcoholics.

When I was 12 years old, my pastor came to the church: Dr. Fredrick Samson. And that was revolutionary because he mentored me and I got a chance to see up close the impact of a rhetorical genius.