Quotes About Youth

It has been truly said, that a woman who has truly loved is always young, and that the bloom of the girl of twenty years ever lies concealed in some secret cloister of the heart. 1

Ah! ¡Joven! ¡Joven! ¿Algún amorcillo? Os repito que os andéis con tiento; la mujer es, ha sido y será siempre causa de la perdición de los hombres.

In the first twenty years of life, your guide is hope, and in your last twenty years, reality.

This horse is decidedly, or rather has been in his youth, a buttercup, resumed the stranger, continuing the remarks he had begun, and addressing himself to his auditors at the window

It was worth while, truly," added the young man with a melancholy smile, "to make war against the English for ten years, and to die in his bed at last, like everybody else.

Youth is the flower of which love is the fruit; Happy the gatherer who picks it after watching it slowly mature.

Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

Far from helping students to develop into mature, self-reliant, self-motivated individuals, schools seem to do everything they can to keep youngsters in a state of chronic, almost infantile, dependency. The pervasive atmosphere of distrust, together with rules covering the most minute aspects of existence, teach students every day that they are not people of worth, and certainly not individuals capable of regulating their own behavior.

Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.

EÈ™ti dement omule. Ai dat o arm? înc?rcat? unor copii. - ÎncetaÈ›i s?-i mai trataÈ›i ca pe niÈ™te copii È™i vor înceta s? se mai comporte ca niÈ™te copii. Cine dracu' sunteÈ›i voi s-o faceÈ›i pe supraveghetorii?... ExplicaÈ›i-le cum funcÈ›ioneaz? arma înc?rcat?... L?saÈ›i-i s? creasc?. Este momentul.

I can't forget what it's done to you. I've been thinking of nothing else since it happened. It's gone forever, that funny young, lost look I loved won't ever come back. I killed that when I told you about Rebecca. It's gone. In a few hours, you've grown so much older.

You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!

Whoever knows you when you are young can look inside you and see the person you once were, and maybe still are at certain times.

That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.

You watch teenage girls and feel shivers up and down your arms -- those poor creatures don't know the first thing about time or agony or the price they're going to have to pay for just about everything.

When you were young you were afraid of ghosts, and when you were aged you called them to you.

Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.

When you are young you are looking forward and when you are old you are looking back.

A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.

The music of your youth stays with you and winds itself around your heart. I hear one chord of Strawberry Fields Forever or Satisfaction and am instantly back in time. It doesn't matter where I am, suddenly I'm walking through the woods, I'm in my best friend's room ...

Life all happened so quickly; people tell you it will, but you won't believe it until it happens to you. Cry all you want, being young will slip through your hands and you will be left standing there, you who were once so young, not recognizing yourself or your life.

Your grand daughter may not be looking for trouble, but trouble is looking for her.

Once upon a time I was young and beautiful. But that is the fairy tale, because it all passes in the blink of an eye.

the eldest who had the misfortune of being too beautiful and had a far off look in her eyes. Madame Cohen had seen what could happen to girls like that, they were picked off like fruit on a tree, devoured by blackbirds.