Quotation Explorer - 'Youth'

The energy of youth with the experience of age is a lethal combination. - Murad S. Shah
It may have been my youth that forged my heart but it is my adulthood that defines me now." ~quote by Roe'vaash in "Then'diel's HEART - K. Farrell St. Germain
She looked at the girl in the chair and she saw what youth was. It was oblivious, with things in its ears. - Ali Smith
There is madness in youth, but sometimes a god inspires it. - Mary Renault
George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life. - Elisabeth Elliot
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. - Franz Kafka
So, after three days of incessant brandy-drinking, he had burned out the youth from his blood, he had achieved this kindled state of oneness with all the world, which is the end of youth's most passionate desire. - D.H. Lawrence
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. - George Bernard Shaw
There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible. - Marcel Proust
George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - he could not even lie. - Mark Twain
The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. - Herbert Hoover
Youth is the most suitable age to enjoy the life completely or to work diligently for the life, what you decide makes your rest of the life ordinary or legendary respectively. - Amit Kalantri
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion. - Democritus
The Fanatics have dirtied its fiber, and their mottos have reated a thick layer of mold over its wounds, one of total intolerance, feeding on the indoctrination of the youth cliques. - Rami Ollaik
I didn’t know then that young girls were a sort of poison, infectious to the man of age; and that men of age justly take woman of age to cure themselves of the diseases of youth. - Roman Payne
But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time. - Mark Twain
My body is like a Temple in Nepal. It is sacred, but has a lot of damage from the earthquake of my youth! - James Hauenstein
In his youth, he was electrified. The stars were moving in his bloodstream. He would not have been cowed by the customs of an earthly monarch. When he loved, it was with a heat and a desperation that he carried like a sword. He loved in the way that Greeks burned cities. - Brenna Yovanoff
Try not to be in a hurry to get older because youth happens once in your life. Thereafter, old age stays with you forever. - Chris Jirika
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. - J. K. Rowling
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together. - William Shakespeare
Ah youth, youth! That's what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age. - Isaac D'Israeli
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. - Friedrich von Schiller
Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth... - Sinclair Lewis
What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ...Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching. - Ivan Pavlov
Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die. - Herbert Hoover
Muslim children should be raised with the understanding that once they hit puberty they are adults and Mukallaf (responsible for their actions). This understanding is crucial to assist them in passing the tests of youth. - Abu Muawiyah Ismail Kamdar
In the fountain of youth, love is the water and enthusiasm is the power. - Debasish Mridha
So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity. - Wayne Gerard Trotman
It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all. - George E. Vaillant
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. - George Bernard Shaw
Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my youth was ending in an explosion of unreal passion. Memories like these make my life sacred and holy. - Roman Payne
Indiscretion is weighted heavily towards youth; inaction is weighted heavily towards old age. - Clifford Cohen
An unbridled imagination is the fountain of youth; it's what keeps us young at heart. - Richelle E. Goodrich
I rather would entreat thy companyTo see the wonders of the world abroadThan, living dully sluggardiz'd at home,Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness. - William Shakespeare
Any youth which is not misspent is, by definition, misspent. - Hermester Barrington
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty. - Louisa May Alcott
I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road. - Benedict Cumberbatch
The glory of youth is the grace of strength. - Lailah Gifty Akita
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect. - Anne Rice
A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future.
I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact," not the only youth with a million hungers and not one of them appeasable, not the only one who is lonely among multitudes, and does not know why. - Jack Kerouac
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
We have some salt of our youth in us. - William Shakespeare
The fragile nature of youth is at last hardened by the agony of experience. - Joel T. McGrath
Thank God I've wasted my youth already. I don't want to do that again. - Greg Deane
The task for parents and teachers is not to teach, it is how to inspire the people of youth to find their desire to learn. - Hasse Jerner
Youth is a period of missed opportunities. - Cyril Connolly
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife. - Will Durant
youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. - Aristotle
When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’. - Epictetus
Youth isn't always all it's touted to be. - Lawana Blackwell
The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence. - Lyman Bryson
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. - Henry David Thoreau
Ah, we shall never have a real aristocracy while this plebeian reluctance to live upon a parent or a wife continues the animating spirit of our youth. It strikes at the foot of the feudal system! - Howells William Dean
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. - Logan Pearsall Smith
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. - Diogenes of Sinope
In youth we learn; in age we understand. - Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
Youth lasts much longer than young people think. - Marie Joséphine de Suin
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
My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sit down, have a nice cup of coffee read a book in another language - the fountain of youth! - Stephen D. Krashen
Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age. - Ziad K. Abdelnour
Today's youth will determine if we're going to fail or succeed in ending global poverty by 2030 - Desmond Oshifeso
The work trains the youth. I have a start of old age ... (Le travail forme la jeunesse. - J'ai un début de vieillesse ...) - Charles de Leusse
Beauty and youth. What a dazzling combination. To bewilder and to sparkle. Days filled with sunshine. And men worshiping at her feet. Love was a game she played with wantonness and mischief.-Fabulous - Jofelyn Martinez Khapra
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions. - Bias
What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness. - Len Deighton
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. - Albert Einstein
It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door. - Evelyn Waugh
In terms of days and moments lived, you'll never again be as young as you are right now, so spend this day, the youth of your future, in a way thatdeflects regret. Invest in yourself. Have some fun. Do something important.Love somebody extra. - Victoria Moran
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. - Bo Bennett
such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty. - William Shakespeare
Do not lose the enthusiasm of your youth. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Youth and beauty are not accomplishments. They're the temporary happy byproducts of time and/or DNA. Don't hold your breath for either. - Carrie Fisher
An adult who ceases after youth to unlearn and relearn his facts and to reconsider his opinions... is a menace to a democratic community. - Edward Thorndike
An old, tired man. That is what I am. What became of the old fire, drive, ambition? There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronising wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them. - Glen Cook
The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age. - Harley King
In order to survive our youth, many of us became sensitized to which conditions we had to play to, to receive attention. No wonder we mistook this attention for love. We thought love came in finite quantities—it had to be competed for among siblings, or it had to be paid for with exacting dues. - Maureen Brady
One of the most important jobs of the youth is to make the elderly happy. - Mehmet Murat ildan
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The hundred-year-old man had never let himself be irritated by people, even when there was a good reason to be, and he was not annoyed by the uncouth manner of this youth. - Jonas Jonasson
I'm most disturbed by the theory of rubber resilience in children; as if its much easier to bounce back with youth. I see them more like Steel. When heated, they can be bent either which way. But if it's not corrected by the time things cool down, they can be forever changed. - Zack W. Van
I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth. - Ben Lindsey
Don't feel bad if your youth cannot be joyful, but at least make it useful. - Amit Kalantri
The secret to youth is to fill your mind with beauty! Amen - Linda Ballou
Use your youth to do something useful or unique or ultimate. - Amit Kalantri
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go." "The War Poems - Siegfried Sassoon
First, stop making formula films that people have already started rejecting.This year, several big budget films haven't been entertained by the audience.Still stars continue to dictate terms.The youth wants new good content.From htcafeSaturday,Dec.20,2014 - Anurag Kashyap
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. - James M. Barrie
Youth is an unrecoverable asset. Unless you are a hydra, lucky you. - Anca Ioviţă
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. - Plato
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. - William Shakespeare
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? - Evelyn Waugh
Behold yon rough and flinty roadWhere youth, now youth no more,Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loavesHe cast away of yore. - Emma Ghent Curtis
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.' - Andre Gide
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth. - Bible
One could say Youth is power of country then my question is-who is youth?sorry to say but you are not youth. Youth is your thoughts, your inspiration and Your initiatives. So take a step to make a change - Prakhar Srivastav
We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I know I have a long way to go but for now I am taking my life one day at a time. Enjoying every minute of my youth as far as I could. I know I am still young but no one is ever too young to have a dream so big to inspire many people. - Diana Rose Morcilla
We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for which youth craves the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal. - Eleanor Roosevelt
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present? - Confucius
Moments of extreme terror bring back the gestures of our youth.
You will look young when you feel young, but to simply feel that you are young will not always cause you to feel young. The real feeling of youth comes when we actually think in the consciousness of youth and give the realization of the now to every thought. - Christian D. Larson
Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to. - Bill Vaughn
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age. I missed it coming and going. - J.B. Priestley
There was nothing about youth that was fair: the young hadn't done anything to deserve it, and the old hadn't done anything to drive it away. - Emma Straub
I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this: dream a great dream.
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. - Dorothy Fuldheim
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are aftermath of war. - Herbert Hoover
Youth is wasted on the young. - George Bernard Shaw
With age brings wisdom; with youth brings innovation. Combine the two and they are unstoppable. - Ocian Hamel-Smith
Beauty for wisdom, lust for love, youth for happiness, anger for understanding and denial for acceptance are all things I gladly trade on my journey through life. Who say's getting old is a bad thing? - J.S. Riley
Because when the night gets here, I’ll be the youngest I’ll ever be again, so I will laugh and celebrate relative youth. - Darnell Lamont Walker
The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough. - Catherynne M. Valente
I want to know we're not pushing children toward the traditions of life, but instead cultivating them to grow in their own specific purposes, and make the dreams of their youth become realities as they age. - Ashley Ormon
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. - W. Somerset Maugham
No instance exists of a person's writing two languages perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth. - Thomas Jefferson
A need for many candles may arise in every nation’s history to light up the darkness in the country. Most of the time, the youth is the very candles themselves! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth. - Marilyn Manson
Who was it who said something about the Indians being argumentative, good soul, let him come to Haridwar and meet this bunch. Good for him too, if he adapts with age; for if after fifty you don't live the aspirations of the young, go away. Who needs spectacle snails salivating on the Soma of youth? - Aporva Kala
The secret of eternal youth is arrested development. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing. - Aristotle
Who so neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. - Euripides
The only thing scarier than death is the disappearance from youth. - Marc Spitz
She was beautiful, but her youth, the very awkwardness of her age, prevented her from flaunting it. - Richard J. O'Brien
Youth is no protection; in the end, life scars us all. - C.W. Gortner
Enthusiasm can keep the fountain of youth flowing. - Debasish Mridha
Age isn't triggered by wrinkles,nor by the reduction of strong footing,for the true youth exists effectively in your heart,brightens through your smile and beats slow when your heart is right, innocent like that of a child - Nwilliams S C
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth. - J. K. Rowling
There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it.
I have no use for your body, for within its youth lies a rotten wench already deceased. - Keisha Keenleyside
No jewels, save my eyes, do I own, but I have a rose which is even softer than my rosy lips. And a quiet youth said: 'There is nothing softer than your heart.' And I lowered my gaze... - Vladimir Nabokov
The foolishness of youth with the cynicism of age is a dangerous combination. - Murad S. Shah
Only in youth does coincidence seem the same as fate. Later, we know that the real course of our lives is decided within us; our paths may seem to diverge from our wishes in a confused and pointless way, but in the end the way always leads us to our invisible destination. - Zweig, Stefan
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
If youth only knew: if age only could. - Henri Estienne
I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students. - Felix Bloch
With age, gone are the forevers of youth. Gone is the willingness to procrastinate, delay, to play the waiting game. Now each day is a treasure beyond compare . . . because there are so few such diadems left. - Joe L. Wheeler
But, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
CHILDHOOD, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth -- two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. - Ambrose Bierce
Joy is the fountain of youth. - Amy Leigh Mercree
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. - Robertson Davies
Youth is to wander! Adult is to act! Age is to assimilate the beauty of thoughts. - Debasish Mridha
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country? - George Washington
This is what youth must figure out:Girls, love, and living.The having, the not having,The spending and giving,And the meloncholy time of not knowing.This is what age must learn about:The ABC of dying.The going, yet not going,The loving and leaving,And the unbearable knowing and knowing - E.B. White
My youth is like a scab: under it there is a wound that every day leaks blood. It disfigures me. - Gottfried Benn
It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world. - Orison Swett Marden
Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it. - Coco Chanel
How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country! - Joseph Addison
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. - Herbert Henry Asquith
What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.
There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
In life you’ll face difficulties that postpone some of your dreams. Regardless, life goes fast by reminding us youth is finite and old age is stable. So you mustn’t stop dreaming and running while your strength is yet tough. - Darmie Orem
whilst you are a youth, think about the aged; whilst you are an aged, think about the youth - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. - Ambrose Bierce
Age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We have our own language. Christianese... We don't say 'He's out of his mind,' no, we say 'That's our youth pastor. - Tim Hawkins
You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun. - Amit Kalantri
So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and sorrow, youth and age, love and hate, terror and bliss - from fire into smoke rising up the air and dissipating on a breeze. - Charles Frazier
One of the greatest dangers of great dreams in your youth is waking up to despair as an adult. - Tice Davids aka David T. Parker
In youth, the greatest success is to see the world from the eyes of the aged people and to feel exactly how they feel. - Mehmet Murat ildan
To refuse ever to deny your youth, right up to extreme old age, to battle all life long to transubstantiate your adolescent flowering into a fruit-ladden tree - that, I belive, is the road of the fulfilled man. (Report to Greco) - N. Kazantzakis
Praise youth and it will prosper. - Irish Proverb
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness. - George Santayana
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
Childhood, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. - Ambrose Bierce
The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice. - Lady Gaga
Only youth has a taste of immortality. - D.H. Lawrence
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie. - Mark Twain
Youth is something I never wanna take for granted. I just want to smile and live life. - Tyler, the Creator
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. - William Shakespeare
has create and develop educational and leadership development programs for our nation's youth and young adults that have provided many opportunities for students to grow and develop. - Chris Salamone
For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms. - Anne Lamott
If I were a flower, then now I’d be a budI shall treasure the beginning of my youth withoutany regrets - Kifuji Aya
Your youth is certainly finished and old age has definitely arrived if you feel that you are losing enthusiasm, excitement and energy towards your dreams and goals. - Amit Kalantri
If youth was sold in a bottle of hair dye, we would all get in line. - Jan Rogers
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth. - Robinson Jeffers
Thou hast nor youth nor age, but, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, dreaming on both. - William Shakespeare
Between video games and texting, how do our youth find the time to know everything? - L.M. Fields
When your youth is about to enter in old age it shouldn't wonder, what happened? it must say, well done. - Amit Kalantri
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence. - Benjamin Haydon
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth. - Martin Luther
Through all of youth I was looking for youwithout knowing what I was looking for - W.S. Merwin
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. - Marshall McLuhan
Impatience is the cardinal sin of youth. - M.T. Bass
I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest, for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting. - William Shakespeare
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. - Alfred North Whitehead
To do something for someone or something you loved- England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history- wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth. - Connie Willis
The fountain of youth resides in our memory. You will never outlive your shadow. - Lorin Morgan-Richards
We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
When the society missteps, it's the youth who first fall sideways. - Nyona Matende
Selfless love, is the fountain of youth... - Samer Chidiac
All things old become new again. In my youth the athletes had crew cuts and the hippies had long hair. Now the athletes have long hair and the hippies are bald. - Harley King
Good parents use the mistakes they did in the past when they were young to advice the children God gave to them to prevent them from repeating those mistakes again. However, bad parents always want to be seen as right and appear "angelic and saintly" as if they never had horrible youth days. - Israelmore Ayivor
What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime. - Frank W. Abagnale
In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match. - Yann Martel
The years thunder by.The dreams of youth grow dimwhere they liecaked in dust on the shelves of patience.Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.Where, then lies the answer?In choice.Which shall it be:Bankruptcy of Purseor Bankruptcy of Life? - Sterling Hayden
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. - Oscar Wilde
Youth is the last ride with fun, but the first one with responsability. - Kevi Dhana
My message for all my readers is: Don't believe in those who claim that youth is a passing disease you just have to get rid of. Don't believe, that maturity is a goal and an asset to go after. Nothing will ever be ready, that is what makes life interesting. Read! - Tuula Kallioniemi
In spite of photographs taken in beer halls or nightclubs showing her cuddling up to some strapping, smirking youth, it seems that the romantic cliché was true: when she met Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun met her destiny - Angela Lambert
Youth is gone -- gone -- and will never come back: can't help it. - Charlotte Brontë
Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Byron, who recovered long enough to call it "entuzy-muzy," had a relapse, which carried him off -- to Missolonghi. - Ambrose Bierce
Love the wife of your youth. Never abandon her. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. - Kurt Cobain
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