YOUTH QUOTES IV

quotations about youth

Youth quote

She does not simulate youth, and yet she is young. Her smile is as captivating as ever, her laugh as merry and as contagious; and though she can no longer romp with her juniors, she enjoys a vivacious game by proxy as much as she ever did in person, and teases with the same innocent and admirable coquetry. Age has quieted her body but not sobered her spirit. As the life of youth is still hers, so are all its interests. In truth, they have widened with the widening years. As her children have grown up and entered into their several professions, she has accompanied them. Whatever touches their life touches hers, whatever interests them interests her. If she cannot enter into their fields, she can at least come to the fence and look over. So, disavowing all professional knowledge, she is yet singularly intelligent in medicine, law, journalism, theology, and teaching. Her children, when they come home, find her always a ready pupil, and, often to their surprise, their intellectual comrade. Although infirmity begins to put its limitations on her activities, never did life seem to her to be so large, so varied, so full of ever-broadening interest. She occasionally brings out of the past sacred and stimulating memories. But she does not live in the past. She lives in her children, that is in the present, and in her grandchildren, that is in the future.

LYMAN ABBOTT

The Home Builder

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Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.

FRANK HERBERT

Chapterhouse: Dune

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Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays

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Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah.

DAVID LEVITHAN

Marly's Ghost


Youth, what man's age is like to be doth show;
We may our ends by our beginnings know.

JOHN DENHAM

Of Prudence

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Youth is the time when hearts are large.

HERMAN MELVILLE

"On the Slain Collegians"

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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

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To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.

MAYA ANGELOU

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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The mirror of my youth will never lie.

BARBARA O'SULLIVAN

"The Mirror of My Youth", The Steel Mirror: Sonnets and Poems


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"

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Youth holds no society with grief.

EURIPIDES

attributed, Day's Collacon

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The period of youth is the glory of nature, and the healthful development of all the resources of strength deposited in our nature is the glory of youth.

ELIAS LYMAN MAGOON

Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of Wisdom


You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

TIMOTHY LEARY

attributed, Office Yoga: Simple Stretches for Busy People

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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

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In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life

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In the central place of your heart there is a wireless station. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, grandeur, courage, and power from the earth, from men and from the Infinite--so long are you young. When the wires are all down and the central places of your heart are covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then are you grown old, indeed!

SAMUEL ULLMAN

"Youth", The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood

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Youth is not a time of life--it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals.

SAMUEL ULLMAN

"Youth", The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood

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What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.

MARY KARR

Lit


The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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Over the trackless past, somewhere,
Lie the lost days of our tropic youth,
Only regained by faith and prayer,
Only recalled by prayer and plaint,
Each lost day has its patron saint!

BRET HARTE

"The Lost Galleon"

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