YOUTH QUOTES VII

quotations about youth

A country that betrays its youth is not going to survive.

DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH

"How government policy disfavors the young", MPR News, March 14, 2017


In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.

GEORGE ELIOT

Felix Holt

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Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.

LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON

Ethel Churchill: or, The Two Brides


Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.

LEWIS H. LAPHAM

"Fortune's Child", Lapham's Quarterly: Youth

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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.

ROBERT F. KENNEDY

speech at University of Cape Town, South Africa, Jun. 6, 1966


Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.

JEAN COCTEAU

The Difficulty of Being

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Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!

LORD BYRON

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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The young are always in extremes.

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Lodore

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It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

ARTHUR C. CLARKE

2010: Odyssey Two

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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


Youth is the gay and pleasant spring of life, when joy is stirring in the dancing blood, and nature calls us with a thousand songs to share her general feast.

JOSEPH RIDGWAY

attributed, The Classic and the Beautiful from the Literature of Three Thousand Years


It's not simply that youth is full of beauty and energy; it is a time of promise, of possibility, of any number of choose-your-own-adventure stories.

MISS ROSEN

"Take a Sip from the Fountain of Eternal Youth", Crave Online, March 15, 2017


The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

DORIS LESSING

Shikasta

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Youth that is so highly prized passes quickly like a dream; sad and wrinkled old age forthwith impends over our head.

MIMNERMUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness, are like the days of spring; instead of complaining of their brevity try to enjoy them.

RUCKERT

attributed, Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopedia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors


There is in youth a purity of character which, when once touched and defiled, can never be restored; a fringe more delicate than frost-work, and which, when torn and broken, can never be re-embroidered.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Youth isn't wasted on, or reserved for, the young.

JULIAN KIMBLE

"At Trillectro, youth is not wasted", Washington Post, August 28, 2016


You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

ANONYMOUS

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O Youth! flame earnest, still aspire,
With energies immortal!
To many a heaven of Desire,
Our yearning opes a portal!
And tho' Age wearies by the way,
And hearts break in the furrow,
We'll sow the golden grain Today--
The Harvest comes tomorrow.

GERALD MASSEY

"Today and Tomorrow"

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How much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

letter to his family, Oct. 18, 1918

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