Quotes About Youth

Un ramo giovane si innesta volentieri e facilmente sul vecchio tronco sul quale non s'innesterebbe facilmente più nessun ramo adulto.

?nsanlar?n birbirlerinin huzurunu bozmas?ndan rahats?z olurum ben, en çok da genç insanlar?n hayatlar?n?n en güzel ça??nda, bütün sevinçlere alabildi?ine kucak açabilecekleri zamanda birkaç güzel günü surat asarak birbirlerine zehir etmeleri ve ancak çok sonradan kaybettikleri ?eyin telafisinin olanaks?z oldu?unu görmeleri can?m? s?kar.

Beware of wishing anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.

Anthony to James about Jeremy : "Need I remind you this is a seventeen-year-old boy we're talking about?" "Need I remind you what you were like when you were seventeen?" James countered.

The human race is being reprogrammed. Young people everywhere suddenly became pacifists in the 1960s after a millennium of violence. Our world was invaded, but not by the hordes of Martians and Venusians envisioned by the flying-saucer believers. We were invaded by new ideas and a new inner structure that would help guide us to the anticipated crises of the 1990s.

So now, even if I wanted to, I could not become a moderate person. Still, I love life and do not want my high-spirited personality to kill me, as it almost did in my youth. This is one reason that motivated me to discover

Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially for the lower classes of people, are so extremely wise and useful that to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.

A boy of fifteen who is not a democrat is good for nothing, and he is no better who is a democrat at twenty.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. Aristotle speaks plainly to this purpose, saying, 'that the institution of youth should be accommodated to that form of government under which they live; forasmuch as it makes exceedingly for the preservation of the present government, whatsoever it be.

Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.

The boy may wrestle, when Night--working Fancy steals him to the arms Of nymph oft wish'd awake, and, 'mid the rage Of the soft tumult, ev'ry turgid cell Spontaneous disembogues its lucid store, Bland and of azure tinct.

Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes The finish'd sense: while stung with keen desire The madd'ning boy his bashful fetters bursts; And, urg'd with secret flames, the riper maid, Conscious and shy, betrays her smarting breast.

Heh? Eh? Our youth is dead. From the minute we discover it with eyes closed Advancing into mountain light. Ouch.

Tomorrow would alter the sense of what had already been learned, That the learning process is extended in this way, so that from this standpoint None of us ever graduates from college, For time is an emulsion, and probably thinking not to grow up Is the brightest kind of maturity for us, right now at any rate.

Should people who fall in love for the first time be made to wear badges? The answer, of course, is yes although I will not go into all the reasons. One or two will suffice. The wearing of a love badge might remind crusty and intolerant old fogies that they too were in love and it might make us all more tolerant of a disorder from which no one at all is immune.

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

I started to write when I was 11 or 12, doing bad imitations of Joyce. There were always white blossoms falling into the grave at the end of every story.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

The good die young — because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.

Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find his words so valuable after all that when he confessed his apprehensions she would explain why they were in fact the very things that made him precious to her ... and to Western Civilization! There was no such girl, the simple truth being.

Tarby was a popular boy, and he was used to being right about everything.

Falling in love at five or six, although rare, is the same as falling in love at fifty. One may interpret one's feelings differently, the outcome may be different, but the state of feeling and of being is the same.

What is the boy now, who has lost his ball,...I am not a little boy.