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Quotes About Youth

Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
~ Edwin Markham
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
~ Edwina Currie
Never be late Age and time do not wait
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Old age is a reversion of childhood with a long journey of memories.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
One's oldness lies not always on the years and white or gray hairs; it can also depend on the mental and physical structure.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The young body has no importance except the sex; conversely, young and healthy thoughts, whatever the age is, inspire one to discover the secrets of the universe
~ Ehsan Sehgal
If the young cannot harbor great dreams in their souls, who can?
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
Kalau orang muda tidak dapat menggantungkan cita-cita besar dalam jiwanya, siapa lagi yang dapat?
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
The young man rushed toward them. "Stand and fight!" he was shouting. "Is running away the Yoshioka version of the Art of War? I personally don't want to kill you, but my Drying Pole's still thirsty. The least you can do, cowards that you are, is leave your heads behind.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
In an age hungry for young men of talent, this was no time to be distracted by a flower along the wayside.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
She was only a year or two older than Musashi, but how different they were in their experience of love. Watching him sit so stiffly, restraining his emotions, avoiding her face as though a look at her might blind him, she felt once again like a sheltered maiden experiencing the first pangs of love.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
Who doesn't envy a child's endless sense of things. Not that they have it but it's what they feel. It's what we're born to know. A sensation of being unhampered by anything except adults.
~ Eileen Myles
If the end of one's youth is a thin slice of cheese I ate mine standing in that room. I was there because I was hungry. That's all.
~ Eileen Myles
If boys were always trying to get in girls' pants, what did they want? What could the girls give them? Pee it seemed to me was an appropriate gift.
~ Eileen Myles
Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.
~ Elaine de Kooning
The world is wide, wide, wide, and I am young, young, young, and we're all going to live forever!
~ Elaine Dundy
It's just that I know the world is so wide and full of people and exciting things that I just go crazy every day stuck in these institutions. I mean if I don't get started soon, how will I get the chance to sharpen my wits? It takes lots of training. You have to start very young.
~ Elaine Dundy
Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.
~ Elaine Dundy
I only did it,' I said, 'now this is going to be the truth, Teddy, I only did it because it seemed to be the glamorous thing to do at the time. It was my ideal of glamour.
~ Elaine Dundy
I felt my attention wandering off. It generally does at the phrase "mere child.
~ Elaine Dundy
Please forgive me, but I've never had to change my mind so often at such short notice in my whole life. It's quite breathtaking. You see, first I thought you wanted my body, then I thought you wanted my love, then my life even, happily-ever-after and all that sort of thing, and now it turns out it is merely my money. Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you.' ... For what?' ... For restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.
~ Elaine Dundy
under stress, HSCs can return to the behaviors and problems of a younger age, and when feeling good HSCs can act older than their age, so the advice for an age that your child is not may still apply right now;
~ Elaine N. Aron
And his father has the gall to think I'd seduce a kid who uses Clearasil instead of aftershave!
~ Elaine Raco Chase
When you're eleven you think every idea is born with you, that no one ever tried it the right way before. Your example, your own honesty, will make you a hero to everyone who knows you - and better, it will make people come to their senses and stop telling vicious lies about each other.
~ Elana Dykewomon