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Quotes About Youth

Full bravely hast thou flesh'dThy maiden sword.
~ William Shakespeare
Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin.
~ William Shakespeare
They threw their capsAs they would hang them on the horns o' the moon,Shouting their emulation.
~ William Shakespeare
How much more elder art thou than thy looks!
~ William Shakespeare
We that are in the vaward of our youth.
~ William Shakespeare
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field.
~ William Shakespeare
The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again.
~ William Sharp
Take it easy, nothing matters in the end, what goes up must come down. If I'd known that at 20, I wouldn't have done anything!
~ William Shatner
William Sleator
~ Hello, Martin.
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
~ William Somerset Maugham
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.
~ William Somerset Maugham
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
~ William Stafford
Climbing Along the River Willows never forget how it feels to be young Do you remember where you came from? Gravel remembers. Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean. Exactly at midnight yesterday sighs away. What I believe is, all animals have one soul. Over the land they love they crisscross forever.
~ William Stafford
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music
~ William Stafford
Durant tota la joventut t'he estat buscant sense saber què buscava.
~ William Stanley Merwin
Later she sat on the ground in the forest between school and home, and spring was so bright and beautiful, the warm air touched her so tenderly, she could almost feel herself changing into a flower. Her light dress felt like petals. "I love everything," she heard herself say. "So do I," a voice answered. Pearl straightened up and looked around. No one was there.
~ William Steig
Now I have a choice. I can go back up, collect my football, and head home; or I can go through. I know what I ought to do. I know what every other boy in Amarias would do. But as I see it, those are the two best reasons there could possibly be for doing the opposite.
~ William Sutcliffe
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
~ William T. Sherman
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.
~ William T. Sherman
There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
~ William Temple
The flies of some other summer darkening its windowsills.
~ William Trevor
Gigantic, willful, young,Chicago sitteth at the northwest gates.
~ William Vaughn Moody
We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.
~ William Wilberforce