YOUTH QUOTES VII

quotations about youth


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What is that to him that reaps not harvest of his youthful joys,
Though the deep heart of existence beat forever like a boy's?

ALFRED TENNYSON
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Locksley Hall


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Every thing is pretty that is young.

SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Pamela

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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


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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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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The category of youth is the product of innumerable forms of assessment, intervention and normalisation, as well as the vehicle for achieving a range of social and governmental objectives. In addition, youth is not a singular entity, but rather an entire range of sub-categories: the 'delinquent' youth, the 'subcultural' youth, the 'at-risk' youth.

GORDON TAIT

Making Sense of Mass Education


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


O happy childhood! blessed youth!
But once we know thy potent power;
But once we live all careless free;
No cross to mar our love-lit bower.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"Heart-Yearnings"

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Youth is an emblem of heaven; there alone its bloom is eternal.

F. VALENTYN

attributed, Day's Collacon


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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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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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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It must be a very weary day to the youth when he first discovers that, after all, he will only become a man.

ARTHUR HELPS

Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

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The sport of youth is the terror of age.

ZORZI

attributed, Day's Collacon


Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth.

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Lodore

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For youth, everything is sport.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

attributed, Day's Collacon

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

SOPHIA LOREN

attributed, The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes


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


Heh? Eh? Our youth is dead.
From the minute we discover it with eyes closed
Advancing into mountain light.
Ouch.

JOHN ASHBERY

"Our Youth Is Dead", The Tennis Court Oath: A Book of Poems

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I remember what it was ... to be young, very young. When everything, touching and tasting--everything--was so new, and even suffering was wonderful because it was so complete.

JAMES BALDWIN

Another Country

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