Quotes About Youth

Whilst I was young I lived upon my mother's milk, as I could not eat grass. In the daytime I ran by her side, and at night I lay down close by her. When it was hot we used to stand by the pond in the shade of the trees, and when it was cold, we had a nice warm shed near the plantation.

There was a ploughboy, Dick, who sometimes came into our field to pluck blackberries from the hedge.

What the world stigmatises as romantic, is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed; for, if the generous ideas of youth are too often over-clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false.

O Reader! If there were less of this delicate concealment of facts- this whispering ''Peace, Peace, when there is no peace- there would be less of sin and misery to the young of both sexes who are left to wring their bitter knowledge from experience.

You have blighted the freshness and promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness!

But romantic notions will not do: I want her to have true notions.' 'Very right: but in my judgment, what the world stigmatises as romantic, is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed; for, if the generous ideas of youth are too often over-clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false.

Oh, Youth may listen patiently, While sad Experience tells her tale, But Doubt sits smiling in his eye, For ardent Hope will still prevail! He hears how feeble Pleasure dies, By guilt destroyed, and pain and woe; He turns to Hope—and she replies, "Believe it not-it is not so!

To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to pursue; but is it the most honest, or the safest? Is it better to reveal the snares and pitfalls of life to the young and thoughtless traveller, or to cover them with branches and flowers?

And if I,' said she, 'am young in years, I am old in sorrow;

I don't want to die with grey hair', she told a friend. 'It's so depressing.')

A dinner made up wholly of young people is generally stupid.

Second Term at Trebizon

I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find.

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

The young are not afraid of telling the truth.

Looking back, I realize that this period of my life has irrevocably come to a close; my happy-go-lucky, carefree schooldays are gone forever. I don't even miss them. I've outgrown them. I can no longer just kid around, since my serious side is always there.

He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings.

We aren't allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn't stop you having your own opinion. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn't be prevented from saying what they think.

I want to see the world and do all kinds of exciting things, and a little money won't hurt.

Deep down I know I could never be that innocent again, however much I'd like to be.

I misjudged her, wasn't mature enough to understand how difficult it was for her.

I long to ride a bike, dance, whistle, look at the world, feel young and know that I'm free, and yet I can't let it show.

If young people wished, they have it in their hands to make a bigger, more beautiful and better world, but that they occupy themselves with superficial things, without giving a thought to real beauty.