YOUTH QUOTES VII

quotations about youth

O Youth! flame earnest, still aspire,
With energies immortal!
To many a heaven of Desire,
Our yearning opes a portal!
And tho' Age wearies by the way,
And hearts break in the furrow,
We'll sow the golden grain Today--
The Harvest comes tomorrow.

GERALD MASSEY

"Today and Tomorrow"

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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


Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.

SARAH ADDISON ALLEN

The Girl Who Chased the Moon


A youth, like a tree, needs pruning.

WIGGINS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Youth that is so highly prized passes quickly like a dream; sad and wrinkled old age forthwith impends over our head.

MIMNERMUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough.

LORD CHESTERFIELD

attributed, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign


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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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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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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For youth, everything is sport.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

attributed, Day's Collacon

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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

Locksley Hall

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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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The sport of youth is the terror of age.

ZORZI

attributed, Day's Collacon


So tutor youth that the sins of age be not imputed to thee.

PYTHAGORAS

attributed, Day's Collacon


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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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 isn't wasted on, or reserved for, the young.

JULIAN KIMBLE

"At Trillectro, youth is not wasted", Washington Post, August 28, 2016


Youth is naturally addicted to amusement, and in this item his expenditure too often exceeds his allotted income.

JOHN AYRTON PARIS

Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest


Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life.

NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS

Outdoors at Idlewild


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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