Quotes About Youth

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Boys wandered about in a condition of unnatural civility

Boys were emerging in increasing numbers to greet, guide and control their apprehensive kin.

I soon discovered that they were absorbed in a silly kind of amorous correspondence with the girls of a neighbouring academy, but " what were all such toys to me?

Claudite jam rivos, pueri: Sat prata biberunt.

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

The youthfull knight could not for ought be staide, But forth vnto the darksome hole he went, And looked in:his glistring armor made A litle glooming light, much like a shade

Gather therefore the Rose, whilst yet is prime,For soon comes age, that will her pride deflower:Gather the Rose of love, whilst yet is time.

In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now.

I'd learned to feel nostalgia for my own youth while I was living it.

That's it! We belong to the nineteen hundreds, Vaughan, and Dike and Lina and even Madam, old as she is. But Mike and Reggie and kids like that, why, they're demi-siècle, they're half century, they belong to the two thousands. It scares you, it sounds so far away—but not to them. They'll have the job of fixing up all our mistakes, the demi-siècle boys and girls will. We're tail end of an era.

You'll be old yourself someday." "I know it. That's why I hate 'em.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. (in a letter written while she was in college)

So up I got in anger, And took a book I had, And put a ribbon on my hair To please a passing lad. And, "One thing there's no getting by -- I've been a wicked girl," said I; But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well be glad!

Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.

She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine.

But you were something more than young and sweet And fair, - and the long year remembers you.

The younger generation forms a country of its own.

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

koodaki ghalamroe padshahii ast ke hich kas dar an nakhahad mord

Aráoz va pensando, mientras abre la puerta y siente la noche fresca, casi fría, que los pasos que damos al principio de la vida son tan hondos que desde entonces no podemos sino caminar una y otra vez por esas huellas. Y es un pensamiento tan deprimente, y a la vez tan complejo para esa hora de la noche, que le resulta cada vez más evidente que a la vuelta no va a conseguir pegar un ojo.

El me miró risueño, y sembró una semilla más en el fértil potrero de mis sueños de pibe.

La suerte del chico depende de la chica.