Quotes About Youth

The Friend of Your Youth is the only friend you will ever have, for he does not really see you. He sees in his mind a face which does not exist anymore, speaks a name, which belongs to that now nonexistent face but which by some inane and doddering confusion of the universe is for the moment attached to a not too happily met and boring stranger…the Friend of Your Youth is your friend because he does not see you anymore.

As youngest boy in service, the worst jobs fell to him, and this would

That is no country for old men, he thought.

I recommend to young people to seek work for what they will learn, more than what they will earn. Look down the road at what skills they want to acquire before choosing a specific profession and before getting trapped in the Rat Race.

Now the "wants." I want to be free to travel the world and live in the lifestyle I love. I want to be young when I do this. I want to simply be free. I want control over my time and my life. I want money to work for me.

Rich dad thought it best to go broke before 30. "You still have time to recover

The lesson is: If you want to see the future, you need to see it through younger eyes.

I don't want to spend my life working just to pay bills. I want to live. I want to be rich. I want to travel the world while I am young enough to enjoy it.

The reason there are more employees than entrepreneurs is simply because our schools train young people to become employees.

how much the friends of my youth impacted the man I had become.

I love dancing. I haven't danced since I was sixteen—but I love it. The music seems to run through my veins like quicksilver and I forget everything–everything except the delight of keeping time to it. There isn't any floor beneath me, or walls about me, or roof over me—I'm floating amid the stars.

Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.

It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away.

At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on.

I heard someone once say that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?

Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.

But Anne with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with visions, looked out unheedingly across city roof and spire to that glorious dome of sunset sky and wove her dreams of a possible future from the golden tissue of youth's own optimism. All the Beyond was hers, with its possibilities lurking rosily in the oncoming years — each year a rose of promise to be woven into an immortal chaplet.

The world is always young again for just a few moments at the dawn.

You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.

If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't.

Anne looked at the white young mother with a certain awe that had never entered into her feelings for Diana before. Could this pale woman with the rapture in her eyes be the little black-curled, rosy-cheeked Diana she had played with in vanished schooldays? It gave her a queer desolate feeling that she herself somehow belonged only in those past years and had no business in the present at all.

Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.

It's fun to be almost grown up in some ways, but it's not the kind of fun I expected, Marilla. There's so much to learn and do and think that there isn't time for big words.