Youth Quotes - Page 32

As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.

I'm definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.

One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth.

Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.

Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!

it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.

The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one.

Never think oldish thoughts. It's oldish thoughts that make a person old.

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible from ever coming true?

Youth has triumphed (upon defeating 86-year-old Dirk van Foreest).

Spontaneity is the province of youth

To young people the future is still long.

some people always have a touch of youth about them.

Our culture puts a lot of pressure on the idea that a woman's self-worth is defined by her looks. It's just awful. And they also put a tremendous premier on youth, which is so, so debilitating and upsetting to so many women. I don't know why they're so dopey. Seriously. I don't see any problem with that and if you do, you should celebrate it. Don't chop your face up.

Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again.

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

The whims of youth break all the rules.