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Quotes About Youth

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.
~ Aldo Leopold
Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?
~ Aldo Leopold
When you're young, no matter how many unpleasant things have happened to you (unless by that time you've become hopelessly neurotic), hope returns daily, even hourly. The sight of a beautiful person, bird, tree, house, flower can lift your spirits like a thermal does the wings of a gliding gull!
~ Alec Wilder
Quiero estudiar, quiero aprender, quiero escribir. Tengo veintidós años. No sé nada. Nada fundamental. No sé lo que debería haber aprendido hace muchos años. Nadie me enseñó nada. Sé, en cambio, lo que debería saber mucho después. De allí que me sienta anciana y niña al mismo tiempo.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
una muchacha en llamas al borde de la noche.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
el vino es como un llanto desolado que humedece mi juventud frente a tus besos que otra deglute
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Matarse es siempre una negación brutal. Pero matarse en plena juventud, en la hora del amor y la primavera es un insulto a la naturaleza.
~ Alejandro Casona
El polígrafo de Flores, en un rapto de arbitrariedad, llegó a establecer un orden de cualidades, según su eficacia para enamorar. Colocó en primer lugar la belleza y luego la juventud, aclarando que estas dos virtudes son tal vez una sola.
~ Alejandro Dolina
Man reaches a point in his life when unchanging becomes a matter of pride; the habits and remnants of youth are thereafter kept in the museum of the self.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
What is it with boys? How do they slide into fucked-upness so quickly, with such natural ease?
~ Aleksandar Hemon
It was this feeling which had impelled him to visit once more those places familiar to his youth, to live over again in memory those dear, painfully sweet recollections of his childhood, overshadowed with a poetical sadness, to wound his soul once more with the sweet grief of recalling that which was for ever past—the irrevocable purity and clearness of his first impressions of life.
~ Aleksandr Kuprin
Hizo como una mujer antaño joven, que pensara rejuvenecer alterando su partida de bautismo.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
Instead of batting their eyes at idiots, young girls will start taking up stick swords to slay a dragon and save the prince.
~ Alethea Kontis
California has about 40 million people. Since the epidemic began almost five months ago, the state has had about 9,000 deaths from the virus, none in anyone under 18. That's correct: Not one person under the age of 18 has died in the largest American state from Sars-Cov-2. Yet California's economy and society remain crippled.
~ Alex Berenson
Tell Your Children
~ Alex Berenson
If I were running a company, I would always want to listen to the thoughts of its most talented youngsters, because they are the people most in touch with the realities of today and the prospects for tomorrow.
~ Alex Ferguson
With young people you have to try to impart a sense of responsibility. If they can add greater awareness to their energy and their talents they can be rewarded with great careers.
~ Alex Ferguson
Young people will always manage to achieve the impossible–whether that is on the football field or inside a company or other big organisation. If I were running a company, I would always want to listen to the thoughts of its most talented youngsters, because they are the people most in touch with the realities of today and the prospects for tomorrow.
~ Alex Ferguson
With young people you have to try to impart a sense of responsibility. If they can add greater awareness to their energy and their talents they can be rewarded with great careers. One
~ Alex Ferguson
No matter how hard we worked to blood youngsters, Barcelona is still able to do this better than any club. The way they develop boys into some of the best players in the world is breathtaking.
~ Alex Ferguson
There is a psychological dimension also to handling indiavidual players. With errant behaviour it helps to look for a moment through their eyes. You were young once, so put yourself in their position. You do something wrong, you're waiting to be punished. What's he going to say?' you think. Or, What's my dad going to say?' The aim is to make the biggest possible impact. What would have made the deepest imprint on me at that stage of life?
~ Alex Ferguson
I certainly found more virtue in patiently working towards the right decision as I got older. In my early days as a manager I could be impetuous - always in a hurry to get things done and stamp my authority on a situation. It takes courage to say, 'Let me think about it. When you're young you want to fly to the moon and you want to get there quickly. I think it's usually enthusiasm that causes this. As you get older you temper your enthusiasm with experience.
~ Alex Ferguson
If you are a boy who has just had his tenth birthday, your next one seems an eternity away. That's because the single year that stretches ahead amounts to 10 per cent of the time you have been on earth. It's a different sensation when you turn 50, because the distance to your 51st birthday amounts to just 2 per cent of the time you have been alive. As you get older and more experienced, you start to think about how you allocate time.
~ Alex Ferguson
Jamie Carragher trained with United as a youngster. When he was with us he was a midfielder and a mundane, run-of-the-mill player.
~ Alex Ferguson