Quotes About Youth

One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.

Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!

Say a prayer for the pretender, who started out so young and strong only to surrender.

If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.

I was always the one at school nobody fancied and I've only ever had one proper relationship.

Kids are curious.Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them.

Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.

He could totally be your boyfriend," [Angel] went on with annoying persistence. "You guys could get married. I could be like a junior bridesmaid. Total could be your flower dog.

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.

He still lived as if he were twenty-two.

As I remember them, late summer Saturdays were always hot, dry, and colored a deep green. I know now some Saturdays must have been gray; rain must have made water princesses dance in gutter puddles, as my grandmother assured me they did, each time a drop plunked down. But I will never really believe it rained on Saturdays, for I can remember only the sun playing with bits of broken glass in the vacant lot next to my house and myself running all day up and down the block like a heathen.

With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.

It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.

Placing wonder on a beautiful baby Young, fresh with innocence Trials of life Dusted with vision Waiting to be polluted

The child was slender as fleeting hope.

The child was slender as a fleeting hope.

Karl met the eyes that were shifting hardness, that were haggard wells of pain and blame; glimpsed briefly the dissolute bending of the lips and the ravaged face of a youth and a beauty buried alive in a thousand motel rooms, in a thousand awakenings from restless sleep with a stifled cry at remembered grace.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom; youth is the season of credulity.

The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honorable gentleman [Walpole] has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.

Ah! I intended never never to grow old … Listen: New Year's Bell!

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger -- because when you do, you find out you can do it.