Quotes About Youth

Oscar Wilde said that youth was wasted on the young, and he was right. When you were young you wasted not only your own life, but usually someone else's as well.

there was just a game. They had killed someone and they thought it was funny. How had she allowed that to happen? How had

Oh, to be that young again, and know what she knew now.

In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports.

I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.

When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.

Remember, breasts don't sag as we get older, they relax.

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

The day a person becomes a cynic is the day he loses his youth.

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.

Oh, if only I were young again, I would travel! There's so much of the world I would like to have seen. But I'm too old for that now and too ill to manage the trip. I don't care much for clothes. I'm giving away all my jewelry. At this point in my life, I see all possessions as just more stuff, , as Cara called it. Meaningless! Worse than meaningless. They are distractions.

Oh, if only I were young again, I would travel! There's so much of the world I would like to have seen. But I'm too old for that now and too ill to manage the trip. I don't care much for clothes. I'm giving away all my jewelry. At this point in my life, I see all possessions as just more stuff, , as Cara called it. Meaningless! Worse than meaningless. They are distractions. ~ Olivia Rutledge from The Beach House

I was at a most impressionable age when I was transplanted to the new soil. I was in that period when even normal children, undisturbed in their customary environment, begin to explore their own hearts, and endeavor to account for themselves and their world.

All those stories of Roman valour, heroism and self-sacrifice that he must have heard – told and retold around military campfires or at dinner tables – were not simply for amusement, he concluded. Their function was to encourage the young to imitate the gallant deeds of their ancestors; they were one aspect of the spirit of emulation, ambition and competition that he saw running right through Roman elite society.

The most important upshot of this,' Polybius concludes, 'is that the younger generation is inspired to endure all suffering for the common good, in the hope of winning the glory that belongs to the brave.

took no chances with Caesarion, given his supposed paternity. Now aged sixteen, he was killed.

What's that kid's story?" Hayden asked.

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was love. I think as I'm getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I'll experience it. At the moment, I don't know, exactly, if I've been in love.

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

I know they say that first love is the sweetest, but that first cut is the deepest.

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

When a man of forty falls in love with a woman of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

Im sure it was the precociousness and an idealistic zest for life's experiences hiding behind a transparent mask of innocence that captured me!