Youth Quotes - Page 17

Youth is so exciting. It'll take over. I don't want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the end.

Whenever I am with energetic young people, I feel like a recharged battery.

My country or the stars Or my youth, what's farthest?

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.

I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.

I do not regret the folly of my youth, but the timidity.

The hills of one’s youth are all mountains

The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment.

Youth is no excuse for sloppiness.

People don't see hunger in front of them so they are not directly affected. What I am doing is connecting young people to the issue

Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.

I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth.

One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.

The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.

I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more

I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth.

No one who is young is ever going to be old.