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Quotes About Youth

A game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
~ Anonymous
A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.
~ Anonymous
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth.
~ Anonymous
Don't let yourself forget what it's like to be sixteen.
~ Anonymous
Love t is hard to understand love at such a young age for example I have no clue in what love is I only know that love is complicated. Since we are young we still have many experiences to go through many problems to solve only then will me understand the meaning of love.
~ Anonymous
To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid.
~ Anonymous
Youth is fleeting, life less so.
~ Anonymous
Loving life is the true path to perpetual youth.
~ Anonymous D
In Scarlet town, where I was born,There was a fair maid dwellin',Made every youth cry Well-a-day!Her name was Barbara Allen.All in the merry month of May,When green buds they were swellin',Young Jemmy Grove on his deathbed lay,For love of Barbara Allen.
~ Anonymous: Ballads
I came to the place of my birth, and cried, "The friends of my youth, where are they?" And echo answered, "Where are they?"
~ Anonymous: Early Miscellaneous
Gaudeamus igitur,Iuvenes dum sumus.[Let us live then and be gladWhile young life is before us.]
~ Anonymous: Latin
Anno aetatis suae… [In the year of his age].
~ Anonymous: Latin
Tom, Tom, the piper's son,He learned to play when he was young.But all the tune that he could playWas "Over the hills and far away."
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
In Mangando and Marimbanguengo, I saw the full misery and evil of the war, the pointlessness of it all, in the soldiers' eyes, like those of wounded birds, in their state of despair and abandon, in the second lieutenant in shorts sprawled on the table, the stray dogs gobbling up leftovers on the parade ground, the flag hanging from the flag­pole like a limp penis, I saw it in the twenty-year-old men sitting in the shade in silence, like old men in parks...
~ António Lobo Antunes
But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency should be taught to every young man and woman as a fundamental skill, should become as vital to growing up as learning to wipe one's own ass, cross the street by oneself, or be trusted with money.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
~ Anthony Burgess
Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.
~ Anthony Burgess
I said, smiling very wide and droogie: 'Well, if it isn't fat stinking billygoat Billyboy in poison. How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip-oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly, thou.' And then we started.
~ Anthony Burgess
The next morning I woke up at oh eight oh oh hours, my brothers, and as I still felt shagged and fagged and fashed and bashed and my glazzies were stuck together real horrorshow with sleepglue, I thought I would not go to school.
~ Anthony Burgess
Tercero: debes comprender que esa «programación» te ha sido impuesta por personas inseguras que, cuando aún eras muy joven e impresionable, te enseñaron, con su comportamiento
~ Anthony de Mello
Why is it so hard to transcend the identities assigned to us when we were young?
~ Anthony Doerr
He was a just a boy. They all were. Even the largest of them.
~ Anthony Doerr
Every hour, Robert thinks, all over the globe, an infinite number of memories disappear, whole glowing atlases dragged into graves. But during that same hour children are moving about, surveying territory that seems to them entirely new. They push back the darkness; they scatter memories behind them like bread crumbs. The world is remade.
~ Anthony Doerr
We all grew up before we were grown up.
~ Anthony Doerr