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Thursday, 4 September 2008
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"With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable." (Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell - Perseverance)

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Browse Quotations about Youth

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.
A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.
All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
Ask the young. They know everything.
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.
Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.
Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest!
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...
Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.
I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
If youth but knew; if age but could.
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.
In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.'
It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.
It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [Lamentations 3:27]
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.
Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight
Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.
No man knows he is young while he is young.
On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. [Ecclesiastes 11:9]
Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.
The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.
The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.
The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.
The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
-- Saki | Youth
The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property.
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.
There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.
They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.
They are not long, the days of wine and roses.
Those whom the gods love grow young.
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.