Youth Quotes
Charlotte Eriksson
Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.
1621 Dorothy Parker
In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad
To suit his theories.
But now I know the things I know
And do the things I do,
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you.
4462 Jess C. Scott
Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.
Good things come to those who wait.
3534 Jess C. Scott
A fit, healthy body - that is the best fashion statement
1687 Jess C. Scott
V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.
2512 Jess C. Scott
My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.
2982 Jess C. Scott
Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.
4590 Roman Payne
She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city
4889 Jess C. Scott
I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?
2502 Daniel Amory
One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that way. He did.
2200 Roman Payne
When I touched her body,
I believed she was God.
In the curves of her form
I found the birth of Man,
the creation of the world,
and the origin of all life.
2557 Daniel Amory
I don’t think I’ve ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even the girl that I dated for two years in college I don’t think I ever referred to her as my girlfriend.”
“How would you introduce her?” I asked.
“I’m just going to say her name,” he said.
2851 C. Kennedy
One can learn from what is not said.
1343 Surgeo Bell
Some of the most beautiful things we have in life comes from our mistakes.
2072 Surgeo Bell
It's ok to be a fool once or twice but never let it be a third time. Be smart and pretend to be a fool and at the end of the hunt make sure you're the one that has the gun.
2699 Surgeo Bell
Most men are blinded by the words "Bad Bitches" and end settling for less!
2728 Surgeo Bell
Rule #1 always look out for yourself first don't nobody love/care for you like you do.
3819 Surgeo Bell
WATCH out for your surroundings, UPGRADE your mindset and keep FOCUS.
2299 Surgeo Bell
Never Expect Loyalty From A Person That Can't Give You Honesty.
3744 Surgeo Bell
It takes a real man to see the difference between a diamond and a rhinestone.
Can't be mad when someone else takes the diamond, that you treated like a rhinestone
4334 Surgeo Bell
Here today, may be gone tomorrow! Never take anyone or nothing for granted! Be sure to count your blessing daily because tomorrow isn't promised.
3037 Surgeo Bell
You can NEVER be like someone else! Just be yourself and you will find that you'll be much happier that way and accomplish more as well.
1763 Haruki Murakami
If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.
3594 Philip Larkin
Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.
2785 A.E. Van Vogt
You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
2263 Wanda Lea Brayton
My earliest poems appear almost skeletal to me now - it seems I've learned to add meat, muscle and a nice suit of clothes.
1783 Margaret Atwood
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.
1012 Amit Kalantri
Use your youth to do something useful or unique or ultimate.
1657 Amit Kalantri
When your youth is about to enter in old age it shouldn't wonder, what happened? it must say, well done.
1344 Amit Kalantri
You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun.
1171 Amit Kalantri
You can not have empty or neutral mind, as long as you work the mind will contain dreams, if you stop working it will contain regrets.
2439 Wayne Chirisa
Dress well because you can; not because its a choice imposed you.
1714 Ravindra Shukla
There are two powers in this world which cannot be matched. Beauty and Youth. Buy the beauty and imprison the youth. Give the best models, actress, and girls from town and nail them. I do not care how much it costs.
3549 Brenna Yovanoff
In his youth, he was electrified. The stars were moving in his bloodstream. He would not have been cowed by the customs of an earthly monarch. When he loved, it was with a heat and a desperation that he carried like a sword. He loved in the way that Greeks burned cities.
2230 Charles De Leusse
The work trains the youth. I have a start of old age ... (Le travail forme la jeunesse. - J'ai un début de vieillesse ...)
4607 Orhan Pamuk
She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life.
3835 Daniel J. Rice
I often wonder what happened to those few I spent my youth in battle beside, those select individuals whom I was drawn to simply by coincidence, whom I joined forces with against an unknown future and a world so large that we depended upon each other because none of us knew a damn thing, and we were all so wise.
4182 Robert Frost
I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate wilfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better.
2891 Ogden Nash
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
4377 Neil Gaiman
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.
2258 Nicholas Sparks
Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.
3738 Cormac McCarthy
He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.
1614 David Levithan
Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah
3947 Rob Sheffield
Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.
4264 Philip Pullman
That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
2928 Chad Sugg
Enjoy your youth.
You'll never be younger than
you are at this very moment.
1226 Charlotte Eriksson
I haven’t been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.
1554 Tan Malaka
Idealisme adalah kemewahan terakhir yang hanya dimiliki oleh pemuda.
4374 Robert F. Kennedy
This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.
3543 Leo Tolstoy
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
1395 Christina Rossetti
What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.
What are brief? today and tomorrow.
What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.
What are deep? the ocean and truth.
3516 Rudyard Kipling
A DEAD STATESMAN
I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18
1011 James S. Kunen
We youths say “like” all the time because we mistrust reality.
4429 Daniel Amory
Don’t you think most of those kids think too much about who got an A or a B when they were in law school and what that means to an inflated G.P.A. and not enough about the world?” asked Connor irrelevantly.
4262 Brett Harris
The beauty of collaboration between older and younger generations is that we combine strength with wisdom - a surefire way to accomplish more for the glory of God.
4420 Bret Easton Ellis
what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.
4642 Zora Neale Hurston
Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
3064 Graham Greene
She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom
shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.
1343 Walt Whitman
I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,
Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,
Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine, one of the nation, of many nations, the smallest the same and the the largest
1871 Aristotle
youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
3864 Jayleigh Cape
A wealth of experience and wisdom doesn't have to be a dead giveaway to your increasing years. The spin you put on it is what will keep you young. Don't let it make you bitter. Learn from it, and let it make you better.
3176 Sara Teasdale
Wisdom
When I have ceased to break my wings
Against the faultiness of things,
And learned that compromises wait
Behind each hardly opened gate,
When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange - my youth.
2692 Margaret Atwood
We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.
1366 C.S. Lewis
I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.
2363 Kim Stanley Robinson
The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring - that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.
4477 Elizabeth Goudge
The very old and the very young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left alone together. Dawn and sunset see stars shining in a blue sky; but morning and midday and afternoon do not, poor things.
2462 Eleanor Brownn
You'd better make friends with Time, because sooner or later it will catch up with you.
1435 Michelle M. Pillow
I find it funny when people try to brag about being younger than me...like having lived less is an accomplishment. Makes me want to pat them on the head, lol. I'm comfortable with who I am.
2637 Wayne Gerard Trotman
Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.
3748 Ruth Ozeki
I felt so stupid and young, and at the same time something was cracking open inside me, or maybe it was the world was cracking open to show me something really important underneath. I knew I was only seeing a tiny bit of it, but it was bigger than anything I'd ever seen or felt before.
1821 Charlotte Eriksson
Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out.
1222 Poppy Z. Brite
There were books about how to be gay; he'd seen them in stores and libraries. Some of them even had diagrams. But there weren't any diagrams about how to fall in love with your best friend and not fuck everything up.
1619 Daniel Amory
I’ve officially turned into a loser,” she whispered cynically. “I’m looking forward to going home and having cereal for dinner and walking Mitchell and studying a little and then going to sleep. I’ve had my ‘going out and having fun’ quota for the year, I guess, and it’s June.
1371 Daniel Amory
This is so funny,” said Ellen, noticing the seating arrangement. “Isn’t this funny? Tom, come sit next to Robin. Griffin, sit next to Laura.”
I stood up and sat next to Robin while Griffin brought his chair over to Laura.
“That’s better,” said Ellen. “Isn’t that better?
2845 Herbert Hoover
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
4868 George S. McGovern
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
1338 Alfred Tennyson
But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills,
And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me,
And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d
To dwell in presence of immortal youth,
Immortal age beside immortal youth,
And all I was, in ashes.
- Tithonus
4721 John Webster
Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle. She died young.
3707 Margaret Atwood
If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time.
4465 A.E. Housman
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,
But young men think it is, and we were young.
2133 Elisabeth Elliot
George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.
4637 Mary Karr
What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.
4781 Gayla Reid
Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope.
1012 Charlotte Eriksson
When you think your life is falling apart, it's usually falling together in disguise.
2124 Russell Brand
Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do.
4450 Rabindranath Tagore
The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.
2129 Seth Godin
At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
4906 Charlotte Eriksson
I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything,
at any time,
and I am not your fault.
4854 Philip Larkin
I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
3324 Philip Larkin
Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
3832 Umberto Eco
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.
4120 Emma Ghent Curtis
Behold yon rough and flinty road
Where youth, now youth no more,
Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loaves
He cast away of yore.
1470 John Logan
When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn't have mentors. We didn't have parents. We were alone. But it was a great time, because we had nothing to lose and a vision to gain.
2263 George Bernard Shaw
What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.
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