Quotes About Youth

So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instrument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind us no longer.

He knew the western country from surveying; had the robust constitution to survive the winter woods; was mostly unflappable; had a mature appearance and sound judgment; and was a model youth, with no tincture of rowdiness in his nature. In certain ways, he was a very old young man.

As president, he lectured a young relative about to enter college that "every hour misspent is lost forever" and that "future years cannot compensate for lost days at this period of your life.

Grant roomed with Fred Dent, who also singled out Grant as "the clearest headed young man I ever saw . . . He always wanted to do what was right, and we all had great respect for him. He was a singed cat—a great deal better than he looked.

Growing up as a miniature adult, burdened with duties, he developed an exaggerated sense of responsibility that would be evident throughout his life.

Even as a teenager, he felt protective toward Fanny and sometimes sounded more like parent than child.

Tal como em seus primeiros poemas de amor juvenis em Santa Cruz, Hamilton era capaz de imaginar as jovens como deusas castas ou como megeras atrevidas. Talvez ele não soubesse ainda qual tipo preferia.

Unlike his father's composed look, his already seemed restless.

Lawrence would function as both a peer and a parental figure for his half brother, and his youthful adventures operated so powerfully on George's imagination that the latter's early life seems to enact a script first drafted by his older brother.

I was often there with George, his playmate, schoolmate, and young man's companion," said Lawrence Washington of Chotank, a distant relative. "Of the mother I was more afraid than of my own parents; she awed me in the midst of her kindness, for she was, indeed, truly kind.

To the young American Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the paths to fortune are innumerable and all open;

As he ventured timidly beyond the self-contained world of his youth, he could not just enjoy spontaneous pleasure and had to justify it in terms of self-improvement.

Even as a teenager, Rockefeller demanded to be treated with adult dignity.

From the outset, the young Hamilton had phenomenal stamina for sustained work: ambitious, orphaned boys do not enjoy the option of idleness.

he was an unusually sober and purposeful young man. In countless letters in later years, he advised young relatives that adolescence was a risky time when evil influences lurked nearby, ready to pounce: "You are now extending into that stage of life when good or bad habits are formed. When the mind will be turned to things useful and praiseworthy or to dissipation and vice.

Having missed a carefree boyhood, he seemed to want to compensate in his later years

The young Washington could be alternately fawning and assertive, appealingly modest and distressingly pushy.

Junior welcomed this firsthand exposure to urgent social problems.

paederasty is somehow no qualification of

Perhaps the generation that will genuinely transform the Arab world has not yet arrived.

If my faults deserve punishment, my youth at least, and my imprudence were worthy of excuse

Shotguns and children don't mix.

old enough to show some mileage, young enough to still find some amusement in the world.

Does this thing have fast forward?" Sorenson asked. "Hold down the shift key," the kid said.