quotations about youth
Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young men, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.
EDMUND BURKE
attributed, The Child and the Man: or, The Children, the Sabbath School, and the World
Youth are diamonds in the sun, diamonds are for ever.
ALPHAVILLE
"Forever Young"
Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experience of riper years. Were it possible for it to realize the worth of time, as life's receding hours reveal it, how rapidly would it press on towards perfection!
LYDIA HOWARD SIGOURNEY
Letters to Young Ladies
Alas! how few look back upon their youth,
Who glean not from the past the unwelcome truth
That Time, of stealthy step and pinion grey,
Brings no new joy like that he takes away!
ANNE S. BUSHBY
"A Letter from Home"
This dream of our youth will fade out as the splendor
Fades from the skies when the sun sinks to sleep.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
"You Will Forget Me"
Ye golden hours of Life's young spring,
Of innocence, of love and truth!
Bright, beyond all imagining,
Thou fairy-dream of youth!
I'd give all wealth that years have piled,
The slow result of Life's decay,
To be once more a little child
For one bright summer-day.
LEWIS CARROLL
"Solitude"
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new.
GEORGE ELIOT
Middlemarch
To invest in our youth is to invest in our future.
RICKY SCALES
"Living Proof Live brings evangelist Beth Moore to KYC", Times Record News, March 15, 2017
Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
So take the good stuff, honey
The money just won't buy
Don't try to save us
Cause we're doing it right
We are, we are the wasted youth
FLETCHER
"Wasted Youth"
What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Ham on Rye