YOUTH QUOTES III
quotations about youth
O my youth abandoned
Like a withered garland
Here comes the season
Of regret and reason
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE
"O My Youth Abandoned", Selected Poems
Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah.
DAVID LEVITHAN
Marly's Ghost
Beautiful is the bloom of youth, but it lasts only for a short time.
THEOCRITUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Youth is an essence as much as it is a phase of life.
JULIAN KIMBLE
"At Trillectro, youth is not wasted", Washington Post, August 28, 2016
Youth has needs, I know,
And headlong yearnings like the mountain streams
That rush adown the nearest path they find
To meet the sounding river.
ANNA KATHERINE GREEN
"Womanhood"
When I was young, I could bounce back from things like a brand-new rubber ball.
KOBO ABE
The Ghost is Here
There is a very prevalent tenet with youth, that good company is every thing desirable, and that bad is even better than none.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
The problem with this generation of youth is that they are scared of taking risks and are not passionate enough to go out and create the future they want to experience.
CLAUDIA TURBAY QUINTERO
"Take advantage of opportunities to improve yourselves", Graphic Online, March 16, 2017
The mirror of my youth will never lie.
BARBARA O'SULLIVAN
"The Mirror of My Youth", The Steel Mirror: Sonnets and Poems
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.
PHILIP PULLMAN
The Golden Compass
It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.
JON KRAKAUER
Into the Wild
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.
CICERO
attributed, Day's Collacon
Youth is the golden period of life, and every well-spent moment will be like good seed planted in an auspicious season.
ELIZA COOK
Eliza Cook's Journal
The ship of youth crowds sail; but if the wind forsakes it, the canvas hangs motionless, awaiting a friendly breath; and too often illusions are summoned to its aid.
MME. SWETCHINE
The Writings of Madame Swetchine
In this conflict between youth and its elders, youth is the incarnation of reason pitted against the rigidity of tradition. Youth puts the remorseless questions to everything that is old and established--Why? What is this thing good for? And when it gets the mumbled, evasive answers of the elders, it applies its own fresh, clean spirit of reason to the institutions, customs, and ideas, and finding them stupid, inane, or poisonous, turns instinctively to overthrow them and build in their place the things with which its visions teem.
RANDOLPH BOURNE
"Youth", The Atlantic Monthly, April 1912
If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings
HARUKI MURAKAMI
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.
FRAN LEBOWITZ
The Paris Review, summer 1993
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.
CONRAD AIKEN
"All Lovely Things"
Youth is often a scoffer at destiny.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims