Quotes About Youth

It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

Do not marry a very young man, you know not how he may turn out; it is a lottery at best but it is a very just remark that "it is better to be an old man's darling than a young man's scorn".

At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.

Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Childhood, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth -- two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.

Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth — two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring but beauty faded has no second spring.

I heard from many girls, just as many inquiries were made by boys, and men and women.

At my age, only naivete still manages to scandalize me sometimes.

Il ne sert à rien de regretter sa jeunesse, Ni de maudire la vieillesse, Ni d'avoir peur de la mort, Ta vie, c'est la journée que tu es en train de vivre, Rien d'autre. Alors divertis-toi, sois heureux, Et sois prêt à partir. (p.424)

The blessed time of my youth passes by, I pour out the wine of my oblivion. Bitter it is, and thus it pleases me. For this bitterness is the zest of my life.

Ölüm yaÅŸam?m?z?n iki ucundan tutmakta: YaÅŸl?l?k ölüme, çocukluktan daha yak?n deÄŸildir.

By the age of seventeen I had accumulated information, then I learnt how to believe.

There are after all, and as Laura said, so many summers.

Yet what use against the deceit of a state are the memories of a child?

The radio, I've told over and again, was always another school for my mind. I listened to the radio all my young life, seriously and continuously, changing my focus, I guess, as I changed. The TV must serve the same purpose now for kids.

The Roman Catholic portrait at the reception of the Indian YMCA displayed the generic Christ, the timorous, blonde-haired, blue-eyed face upturned to the heavens, a lost middle-class student searching for guidance in an inhospitable world.

Today's young people suffer from an overdose of information processing and many of them are trying to come back from information to meaning processing to reinvent the meaning of their lives. Here again all they need is inner situational creativity.

The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.