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Quotes About Youth

What's a man's age He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
~ Robert Browning
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!
~ Robert Browning
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew
~ Robert Browning
The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air.
~ Robert Burns
Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.
~ Robert Burns
O whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad:Tho' father and mither and a' should gae mad.
~ Robert Burns
Green grow the rashes, O;Green grow the rashes, O;The sweetest hours that e'er I spendAre spent among the lasses, O.
~ Robert Burns
But, oh! fell death's untimely frost,That nipt my flower sae early.
~ Robert Burns
An honest man here lies at rest, The friend of man, the friend of truth, The friend of age, and guide of youth: Few hearts like his, with virtue warm'd, Few heads with knowledge so inform'd; If there's another world, he lives in bliss; If there is none, he made the best of this.
~ Robert Burns
A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
~ Robert Byrne
It doesn't take a huge amount of knowledge and skill to get a program working. Kids in high school do it all the time. Getting it right is another matter entirely. When software is done right, it requires a fraction of the human resources to create and maintain.
~ Robert C. Martin
The Japanese were aware that there was a tendency among these young men to close their eyes just before the crash, a very human reaction to the situation. They were repeatedly exhorted to keep their eyes open and to continue aiming their aircraft to the last moment. It is impossible to forget that these were very young men on both sides of this story.
~ Robert C. Stern
The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.
~ Robert Caro
El amante accesible. Cuando la gente madura, se protege contra experiencias dolorosas encerrándose en sí misma. El precio de esto es la rigidez, física y mental. Pero los niños están por naturaleza desprotegidos y dispuestos a experimentar, y esta receptividad es muy atractiva.
~ Robert Greene
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. —Franz Kafka
~ Robert Greene
Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere... - Pg. 82
~ Robert Harris
You were too young to fight in the last war, and I was too old. In some ways that made it worse.
~ Robert Harris
This sort of talk always bores me: old men complaining that the world is going to the dogs. It's so banal.
~ Robert Harris
Where was the respect? The boys all looked like girls and the girls all looked like whores. Clearly, the country was already halfway in the shit.
~ Robert Harris
That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.
~ Robert Harris
Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.
~ Robert Heinlein
Thank you, the young mother said again. Thank you. The Black Tower protects, Logain heard himself say. Always. I will send him to you to be tested when he is of age, the woman promised, holding her son. I would have him join you, if he has the talent. The talent. Not the curse. The talent.
~ Robert Jordan
For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.
~ Robert Jordan
The newest pups always blame the elders of the pack.
~ Robert Jordan