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Quotes About Youth

You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.
~ L. Frank Baum
A beautiful girl is much superior to a little yellow bird, and a boy—such as I was—far better than a Green Monkey.
~ L. Frank Baum
It was a lonely life to lead, for I had nothing to think of, having been made such a little while before.
~ L. Frank Baum
Pray what can a civilized boy do now When all the Dragons are dead?
~ L. Frank Baum
Cara dama, por que reprova Este aqui, pobre palhaço? Uma moça assim, tão nova, De coraçãozinho de aço
~ L. Frank Baum
In the Country of the Gillikins, which is at the North of the Land of Oz, lived a youth called Tip. There was more to his name than that, for old Mombi often declared that his whole name was Tippetarius; but no one was expected to say such a long word when "Tip" would do just as well.
~ L. Frank Baum
Gilbert took from his desk a little pink candy heart with a gold motto on it, "You are sweet," and slipped it under the curve of Anne's arm. Whereupon Anne arose, took the pink heart gingerly between the tips of her fingers, dropped it on the floor, ground it to powder beneath her heel, and resumed her position without deigning to bestow a glance on Gilbert.
~ L. M. Montgomery
Girls, sometimes I feel as if those exams mean everything, but when I look at the big buds swelling on those chestnut trees and the misty blue air at the end of the streets they don't seem half so important.
~ L. M. Montgomery
Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it? Diana and I are thinking seriously of promising each other that we will never marry but be nice old maids and live together forever
~ L. M. Montgomery
The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.
~ L. M. Montgomery
I'm estranged from my father and that relationship, as a young man, is incredibly important. It's probably responsible for the man I've become.
~ Jesse Metcalfe
The relationship between Aquaman and Aqualad should be investigated.
~ Seth MacFarlane
I could not possibly be in a relationship now for more than six days. When I was younger, I might have said six months, although I think the longest relationship I was ever in was three years.
~ Fran Lebowitz
It's hard for young people to understand when you tell them how great relationships are.
~ Robert Englund
We have a professional relationship [with Chancellor Angela Merkel].2016 is the year of the German-Russian youth exchange, so the relations are moving on.
~ Vladimir Putin
Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.
~ Gaby Hoffmann
Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.
~ Robert D. Putnam
Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.
~ A.C. Grayling
First of all, our young must be strong. Religion will come afterwards.
~ Swami Vivekananda
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
~ Martin Luther
I hope I never get so old I get religious.
~ Ingmar Bergman
How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
~ Marquis de Sade
The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.
~ Thomas A. Edison