Quotes About Youth

We take children from their parents because these cannot give them an intellectual training. So far, good. But we fail to give them that training in character which parents alone can give. Home influence, as Grace Aguilar conceived it—where has it gone? It strikes me that this is a grave danger for the future.

After we tried ecstasy everyone at school called us 'The Group'.

If we teach students that there is no right and wrong, why are we surprised when a couple of students gun down their classmates or a teenage mother leaves her baby in a trash can?

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

When I was young, a teacher had forbidden me to say "more perfect" because she said if a thing is perfect it can't be more so. But by now I had seen enough of life to have regained my confidence in it.

Here, and everywhere, psychoanalysis must take the paradoxical position that the Child is Father to the Man; that Primal Father was once a boy, and, if there is anything to psychoanalysis, owes his disposition to his boyhood.

I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be so and painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers . . . only foxy grandpas who played baseball with kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the back yard.

Drama is not a genre for infant prodigies: I can't think of a dramatist who made a major reputation as early as, say, Keats or Rimbaud in lyric poetry.

Boy, n.: a noise with dirt on it.

I want to help children in Serbia and around the world so they can realize their dreams.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Oh draw at my heart, love, Draw till I'm gone, That, fallen asleep, I Still may love on. I feel the flow of Death's youth-giving flood To balsam and ether Transform my blood -- I live all the daytime In faith and in might And in holy fire I die every night.

Ohne die Träume würden wir gewiss früher alt.

ah! tüket beni ey sevgili, sonuna kadar tüket ki, uykuya dalay?m ve sevebileyim. hissediyorum ölümün gençle?tirici ak???n?, kan?m merheme ve uzama dönü?mekte - ya??yorum gündüz vakitlerinde inanç ve cesaretle geceleri ise kutsal ate?te ölüyorum.

Memory's distances, youth's wishes, childhood's dreams, the short joys of a whole long life and hopeless hopes come grey-clad, like evening mist after the sun has set.

The true philosophical act is the slaying of the self; this is the real beginning of all philosophy, therein lies the requirement for all philosophic youths, and only this act answers all criteria and conditions for the transcendental deed.

when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness under every soft appearance.

But you know, there's one simple thing I see absolutely clearly, now that I am so very old. I looked at her. The Albert Einstein hairstyle, and the bright black eyes and the sharp nose. That pallor on her face. She put her small hand on mine. The world is wonderful , she said. All its little things. It is wonderful .

But this upland pass was the right place for remembering how, when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness underneath every soft appearance.

No todo lo que brilla ha de ser oro: siempre oíste decir al mundo a coro. Ha vendido su vida mucha gente por mirarme por fuera solamente: no hay tumba de oro sin gusano y lloro. Si fueras tan sensato como osado, joven de cuerpo y viejo en buen sentido, tal respuesta no habrías recibido: adiós: tu pretensión ha fracasado

Babam beni mektebe götürdü?ü zaman, çantamla birlikte art?k uzun bir hayat tecrübesini de omzumda ta??yordum. Bir de Vatan denen bir ?ey vard? ki, çok iyi korunmas? gerekiyordu. Bizler, her sabah hep bir a??zdan onu özümüzden çok sevdi?imizi, ant denen bir ?ey içerek hayk?r?yorduk.

Balzac, kendini romantik sanan genç k?zlar?n, saçma sapan hayallerini beslemek için okuduklar? ikinci s?n?f bir romanc?d?r. - Selim I??k

hava karar?yordu. kö?eden bir genç k?zla bir genç adam göründü kolkola. delikanl? bir ?eyler anlat?yordu, genç k?z da ba??n? sall?yordu. "bana kal?rsa film biraz kar???kt?," dedi genç adam. "baz? yerlerini anlamad?m." "can?m," dedi k?z, "sonunda çocuk ölüyor i?te." "aptal," dedi delikanl?, "o kadar?n? biz de anlad?k.

Bu f?rsat? iyi kullanmal?s?n o?lum Mustafa: Madem ki dört ya??nda damdan dü?ünce ölmedin, ya?amay? hak etti?ini göstermelisin.