Quotes About Youth

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.

When we were young and foolish people said we had a death wish. If we live to be old and tired, we realize we had a life wish; and miss it often.

Ah, great it is to believe the dream As we stand in youth by the starry stream; But a greater thing is to fight life through. And at the end, The dream is true!

When you're young it's all about how many friends you have, when you get older it's the number of true friends you have.

Children are the flower of life let's be kind to them, Let's make them happy and let's help them. To save that child inside for the rest of their lives!

The world is beautiful. Even if you're full of tears and sadness, open your eyes. Do what you want to do. Be what you want to be. Find friends. Don't be in a hurry to grow up. Take your time.

I come to say that you may go, and I will help you..." Did he know how much those words cost me? I do not think he could. It is youth's gift not to feel its debts.

When I was young, I overheard our palace surgeon. He said that the medicines he gave out were only for show. Most hurts heal by themselves, he said, if you give them time. It was the sort of secret I loved to discover,

She must have heard such pleas a thousand times. That is one thing gods and mortals share. Where we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world.

Every day makes me old," she said. "I do not have your years to waste. As for that safety, I do not want it. It is only more chains. Let them come at me if they dare.

He is too young to know himself a prisoner.

And then I remembered, he will never be old.

He was spring, golden and bright.

They have wrinkles, but no wisdom. I took them to war before they could do any of those things that steady a man. They were unmarried when they left. They had no children. They had no years of lean harvest, when they must scrape the bottom of their stores, and no good years either, that they might learn to save. They have not seen their parents grow old and begin to fail. They have not seen them die. I fear I have robbed them not only of their youth but their age as well.

I want to shatter the cold mask of stone that has slipped down over the boy I knew.

It is true. But there is more, and worse that he has not said." The words came tonelessly, as a statue would speak them. "If you go to Troy, you will never return. You will die a young man there.

She is also young and has the prejudices of her kind. I am older and flatter myself that I can read a man more clearly. I have no objection to Patroclus as your companion.

La envidiosa muerte se bebería su sangre y sería joven de nuevo.

we were only twelve, too young to brood.

I conjure the boy I knew. Achilles, grinning as the figs blur in his hands. His green eyes laughing into mine. Catch , he says. Achilles, outlined against the sky, hanging from a branch over the river. The thick warmth of his sleepy breath against my ear. If you have to go, I will go with you . My fears forgotten in the golden harbor of his arms.

Quando sorrideva, la pelle attorno ai suoi occhi si increspava come carta tenuta vicino a una fiamma. Achille stesso era come una fiamma. Splendeva, attirava lo sguardo di tutti. C'era qualcosa d'incantevole in lui persino quando era appena sveglio, con i capelli scarmigliati e il volto ancora impastato di sonno.

Could a boy of sixteen really be our greatest warrior? And everywhere, as I watched the questions, I saw also the answers. Yes, they nodded to each other, yes, yes.

Girls and boys would sigh over him, but all I saw were the thousand soft places of his body where his life might be ended.

A boy trained for music and medicine, unleashed for murder.