Quotes About Youth

You know, at some point people reach an age at which they can no longer be considered 'promising.' I think it is about the time they turn forty.

Whenever anyone asks me for investment advice, I tell them to buy a diversified portfolio heavily tilted toward stocks, especially if they are young, and then scrupulously avoid reading anything in the newspaper aside from the sports section. Crossword puzzles are acceptable, but watching cable financial news networks is strictly forbidden.#

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

My first car was a 1976 Toyota Corolla Liftback in red, like the one in 'The Blues Brothers.' I painted a Union Jack on the roof. I was absolutely in love with it until I destroyed it, which broke my heart!

I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

I belong to the blank generationI can take it or leave it each time

To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.

To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.

There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs, It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again.

Bosnia is a country," he said with a dry laugh, "where every boy grows up with the dream that someday he will own his own checkpoint.

My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky; So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! …5

Continuous reoptimization (sometimes dignified by the name "flexibility") is the real enemy of happiness, as can be observed among young people who spend the day reorganizing their evening arrangements each time a better opportunity arises.

And I wanted to be as I had been yesterday, a boy again, without the heaviness of doubt, this pressing fear, this new treachery that lifted to realms of singing gold, and in a little space, flung to pits of night.

indeed I often dream of it, and I can still feel how I felt, as though I was still small, and all those people were still alive. It is very strange to think back like this, although come to think of it, there is no fence or hedge round Time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.

But the truth is I found out about Davy in the usual way a small boy finds out things he is denied to know by older people, and that is through other small boys.

Wyn we called her from the start, see. Nothing else to be done with a girl like that. Brown eyes she had, big, with eyelashes that touched her brows, and a smile in her voice, and looking to Davy as to a brother of God.

Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart. If we are going to save environmentalism and the environment, we must also save an endangered indicator species: the child in nature.

I wish I were a boy again-unquestioning, with no need to analyze the moment.

He kept thinking about Mary. What a fool he'd been to let her go. To think, with the thoughtless assurance of youth, that the world was replete with endless possibilities. He'd thought it a mistake to choose so early in life and embrace the present good. He'd been a great one for looking for greener pastures. He'd kept looking until all his pastures were brown with time. (Old Haunts)

This was something Grandma Tilly couldn't understand---how war promises a boy it can make a man out of him.

The trenches are all filled in, but the boys are still dying.

It was always August.

I was too young to know how much a dangerous man interests a good woman.

I was getting long in the leg but still short on experience.