Quotes About Youth

I had my yob periods. Nothing violent but certainly loutish. I think it's frustrated intelligence. Imagine that if you were really intelligent and everyone treated you as though you were stupid and no one tried to teach you anything -- the sort of deep subliminal rage that would get going in you. But then once it gets going, you make a strength out of what you know is your weakness, which is that you are undeveloped.

We are all young compared to eternity''.

When I was young, I admired people who were clever. Now that I am old, I admire people who are kind.

In adolescence students are suddenly turned loose on books worth reading, but generally don't know how to read them.

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty–they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.

Everyone is too young when their mother dies.

I was probably cool around the end of 2002.

Youth disserves; middle age conserves; old age preserves.

For the children and youth in poverty from diverse cultural backgrounds who attend urban schools, having effective teachers is a matter of life and death. These children have no life options for achieving decent lives other than by experiencing success in school … Because it generates extremely high levels of emotional intensity, it [teaching in an urban school system] is more akin to being an air traffic controller than being a 'schoolteacher'.

Only now have you lived long enough to know the child that you shall always remain.

Longevity is highly over rated.

Every successful brand stands for something more than itself, and that thing is emotional. A great brand promises hope, the contagion of coolness, or desirability, or love, or romance, or acceptance, or luxury, or youth, or sophistication, or high-quality technology.

men and women have two ages: a chronological age, and an emotional age they feel inside. (I'll explore this subject in more detail in a later chapter.) Men typically conceal evidence of their younger selves in drawers, or buried inside online folders, whereas women are less embarrassed about publicly showcasing their younger selves, and express it openly

I am much afraid that the universities will prove to be the great gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt.

What would it profit us to possess and perform everything else and be like pure saints, if we meanwhile neglected our chief purpose in life, namely, the care of the young?

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

CreÅŸtinii au mare noroc c? sînt de foarte tineri puÅŸi în gard? împotriva riscului inteligenÅ£ei; ei vor ÅŸti, toat? viaÅ£a, s? se fereasc? de ea. FericiÅ£i cei s?raci cu duhul.

In Ecclesiastul scrie <>;dar neavand nicodata fericirea sa merg la catehism cu ceilalti copii, nu am fost prevenit de pericolele studiului. Crestinii au mare noroc ca sunt de foarte tineri pusi in garda impotriva riscului inteligentei; ei vor sti, toata viata sa se fereasca de ea. Fericiti cei saraci cu duhul.

În Ecclesiastul scrie «c? cel ce îÅŸi înmulÅ£eÅŸte ÅŸtiinÅ£a îÅŸi sporeÅŸte suferinÅ£a»; dar, neavând niciodat? fericirea s? merg la catehism cu ceilalÅ£i copii, nu am fost prevenit de pericolele studiului. CreÅŸtinii au mare noroc c? sunt de foarte tineri puÅŸi în gard? împotriva riscului inteligenÅ£ei; ei vor ÅŸti, toat? viaÅ£a, s? se fereasc? de ea. FericiÅ£i cei s?raci cu duhul.

She wanted to warn them; they would waste their youth because they did not realise just how fleeting it was, and because most people did.

Now she knew why her mum had kept such a close eye on her; she wasn't interfering as such, she had just understood that there were people in this world who were capable of causing great hurt as well as great sadness for young girls.

Youth, as Oscar Wilde had once said, was wasted on the young!

you couldn't fight age, not really. If you had ten face-lifts and your whole body remodelled, you might look younger but you would still be fifty or sixty or whatever. Looking younger did not make you younger. Time passed, and the older you got the quicker it seemed to go.

When your children are young they tread on your feet. When they get older they tread on your heart!