YOUTH QUOTES VI

quotations about youth

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


In youth alone, unhappy mortals live;
But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive:
Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come,
And age, and death's inexorable doom.

VIRGIL

Georgics

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

F. VALENTYN

attributed, Day's Collacon


Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?

JULIAN BARNES

The Sense of an Ending

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The retrospect on youth is too often like looking back on what was a fair and promising country, but is now desolated by an overwhelming torrent, from which we have just escaped. Or it is like visiting the grave of a friend whom we had injured, and are precluded by his death from the possibility of making him an atonement.

JOHN FOSTER

John Foster: Life and Thoughts


My youth is the foundation of me.

KHALID

"American Teen"


It is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by an emotion it can never have enough of it.

STEFAN ZWEIG

Beware of Pity

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For youth, everything is sport.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Every thing is pretty that is young.

SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Pamela

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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


Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick,
Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

The Night of the Iguana

Tags: Tennessee Williams


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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Time ever mocks all youthful hopes;
He laughs at ever plan youth makes;
He buries fame and honor deep
In grave of hope--too late youth wakes.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"Time's Ravages"

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There may be no fool like an old fool, but our observation has been that the young fool runs him a pretty close second.

ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES

Poems and Paragraphs

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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 magnet does not more surely and powerfully attract the needle, than youth by some electric sympathy of soul is attracted by youth.

ROBERT SHELTON MACKENZIE

Titian: A Romance of Venice


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

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Lodore

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Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties,
And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.

HILAIRE BELLOC

"Habitations", Sonnets and Verses

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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Of Human Bondage

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