Youth Quotes:

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

topic: Time, Philosophical, Youth, Intoxication

Youth loves honor and victory more than money.

topic: Hope, Philosophical, Youth, Gullibility

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

topic: Honor, Victory, Youth

Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.

topic: Fate, Empires, Youth

- Arnold Sommerfeld

topic: Childhood, Disease, Youth

The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth.

- Arsene Houssaye

source: Arsène Houssaye (1852). “Philosophers and Actresses”, p.89

topic: Heart, Youth, Young

I can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had.

- Art Buchwald

topic: Home, Marine, Youth

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Thought Provoking, Youth, Wonderful, Seventeen

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

- Arthur Rimbaud

source: Arthur Rimbaud (1962). “Rimbaud”

topic: Time, Youth, Sensitive

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

- Ashley Judd

topic: Prevention, Youth, Awareness

Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.

- Assia Djebar

source: Assia Djebar (1993). “Fantasia, an Algerian Cavalcade”, Heinemann Educational Publishers

topic: Writing, Youth, Language

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

- Augustus William Hare

source: Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.255

topic: Love, Passionate, Youth

To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Vision, Youth, Ends

Enjoy your youth. You'll never be younger than you are at this very moment.

- Backseat Goodbye

topic: Youth, Moments, Enjoy

Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience.

- Baldur von Schirach

source: "The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership". Book by Joachim C. Fest , p. 221, 1999.

topic: Symphony, Youth, Faust, Transience, Eternal Youth

Young people recognize the big challenges that are coming up...

- Barack Obama

topic: People, Challenges, Youth, Big Challenges

With God in the Joy of Beauty and Youth

- Barbara La Marr

topic: Tombstone, Joy, Youth

It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.

- Barbara Mertz

topic: Age, Youth, Easier

He is in youth swift, pliant and merry, and leapeth and rusheth on all thing that is before him; and is lead by a staw and playeth there with.

- Bartholomeus Anglicus

topic: Cat, Youth

We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.

- Ben Barnes

topic: Culture, Youth, Film

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

topic: Effort, Path, Youth

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Time, Youth, Trustees

To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Youth, Fortune, Young

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Military, Done, Youth, Almost Done

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

- Benjamin Haydon

topic: Suffering, Age, Youth

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

- Bernard Berenson

topic: Desire, Excess, Youth

When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.

- Bess Streeter Aldrich

source: Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.241, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Mean, Irony, Youth

For youth, sexual love is whim; for the aged, luxury.

- Bill Gaede

topic: Love Is, Luxury, Youth

What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.

- Billie Joe Armstrong

topic: America, Mecca, Youth

Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible.

- Bob Harper

topic: Yoga, Youth, Fountain, Inspiring Yoga, Stretching

Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.

- Booth Tarkington

source: Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.32, Booklassic

topic: Romance, Youth, Imagine

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.

- Brian Ferneyhough

topic: Philosophy, Students, Youth, Pragmatists

Early youth is a baffling time

- Bruce Catton

topic: Youth

At 25, you've got millions of brain cells to kill.

- Bruce Willis

topic: Cells, Brain, Youth, Brain Cells

Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Age, Youth, Surface

I give thanks for ever increasing health, youth and beauty.

- Catherine Ponder

source: Catherine Ponder (2016). “The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity”, p.62, Lulu.com

topic: Giving, Thanks, Youth

The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.

- Catherynne M. Valente

topic: Blessing, Youth, Enough

Seeing the show is like a visit to the fountain of youth for parents and the children.

- Cathy Rigby

topic: Children, Parent, Youth, Fountain Of Youth

I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.

- Catullus

topic: Writing, Youth

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

- Chanakya

topic: Beauty, Youth, Beats, Inspiring Education, Educated Person

Education beats the beauty and the youth.

- Chanakya

topic: Education, Youth, Beats

People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.

- Charlaine Harris

topic: People, Culture, Youth, Eternal Youth

There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

- Charles Finch

source: Charles Finch (2014). “The Last Enchantments”, p.167, Macmillan

topic: Paris, Important, Youth, Dimwits

Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?

- Charles Kingsley

topic: Soul, Youth, Mercy

Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

- Charles Lamb

topic: Men, Childhood, Youth

Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.

- Charles Rangel

source: "Advancing the Dream Through Education" by Rep. Charles Rangel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2013.

topic: Encouragement, Youth, Higher Education

I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.

- Charles Sumner

topic: Men, Sensual, Youth

Youth should learn to think and act as a mass.Â It is criminal to think as individuals!

- Che Guevara

topic: Thinking, Criminals, Youth

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

- China Mieville

topic: Children, Thinking, Youth

If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

- Clara Schumann

topic: Joy, Youth, Trouble

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

- Claude M. Bristol

source: Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude M. Bristol (2015). “Magic of Believing Collection”, p.48, Lulu.com

topic: Self, Wish, Youth, Fountain Of Youth

Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth.

- Claudius Claudianus

source: "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 921-24, De Raptu Proserpiae, III. 227, 1922.

topic: Youth, Slippery

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

- Cleveland Abbe

source: Alfred Goldsborough Mayer, Silas Weir Mitchell, Cleveland Abbe, Edward Leamington Nichols, Edwin Herbert Hall (1919). “Biographical Memoir of Theodore Nicholas Gill, 1837-1914: 1913”

topic: Long, Youth, Should

We spend all our youth chasing money, and when we attain it, we spend all our money chasing youth.

- Colin Goh

topic: Youth, Chasing, Chasing Money

The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.

- Colley Cibber

topic: Ephesians, Fool, Youth

All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

- Conrad Aiken

source: Conrad Aiken (1961). “Selected Poems”, p.273, Oxford University Press on Demand

topic: Lovely, Pennies, Youth, Lovely Things

Youth yearns to youth, full blood loves full blood only.

- Conrad Aiken

topic: Blood, Youth

Nothing belongs more fully to an artist than his creation - even if you give him your youth, your money, your love, your courage, nothing belongs to you.

- Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

topic: Artist, Giving, Youth

Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!

- Coventry Patmore

topic: Siege, Youth, Courtesy, Wooing

Only youth has a taste of immortality.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Taste, Youth, Immortality

I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem

- Dante Gabriel Rossetti

source: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Sonnets LXXIV: LXXV:LXXVI: Old And New Art”

topic: Pride, Youth, Poet

If you're pursuing something that you love and you're learning something new, every day, that's the key to youth [staying young].

- Dave Bautista

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Keys, Youth, Something New, Staying Young, Learning Something New

Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.

- Dave Eggers

source: Dave Eggers (2007). “What Is the What”, p.116, Vintage

topic: Eye, Looks, Youth, Troublesome

I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!

- David Copperfield

topic: Secret, Youth, Fountain, Fountain Of Youth

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

- David Cronenberg

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Youth, Realizing, Stereotype

I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.

- David Dinkins

topic: Children, Youth, Program, Children Love

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

- David Mamet

topic: Age, Youth, Beats, Treachery, Exuberance

Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.

- David Rakoff

source: David Rakoff (2002). “Fraud: Essays”, p.30, Anchor

topic: Youth, Young

How the false truths of the years of youth have passed!Have passed at full speed like trains which never stoppedThere where I stood and waited, hardly aware,How little I knew, or which of them was the oneTo mount and ride to hope or where true hope arrives.

- Delmore Schwartz

source: Delmore Schwartz (1959). “Summer knowledge; new and selected poems, 1938-1958”

topic: Years, Littles, Youth

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

- Democritus

topic: Pride, Age, Youth, Strength And Beauty

Our youth [with their overwhelming support of Obama] are voting for a permanent tax on their life

- Dennis Prager

topic: Support, Voting, Youth

In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

- Dick Cavett

topic: Thinking, Youth, Assuming

The music of your youth stays with you throughout your life.

- Dick Clark

topic: Youth

It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Church, Tasks, Youth

This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.

- Dorothy Fuldheim

source: "Why brands side-line the over-50s at their peril" by Crispin Reed, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2013.

topic: Disease, Youth, Aging, Youth Funny

Youth is a disease from which we all recover.

- Dorothy Fuldheim

topic: Happy Birthday, Disease, Youth

Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Youth, Audience, Imaginary

I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Feelings, Adults, Youth

Every major industrial society believes it has a serious youth problem.

- Edgar Friedenberg

topic: Believe, Serious, Youth

the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth.

- Edgar Lee Masters

source: Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.175, The Floating Press

topic: Growth, Youth, Prize, Eternal Youth

I suppose it is a gift, being young, but it isn't special. We've all got it, early in life.

- Edna Ferber

topic: Special, Youth, Young

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

- Edvard Munch

topic: People, Youth, Paint

In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Fate, Lexicon, Youth, No Failure

Some people have youth, some have beauty â€“ I have menace.

- Edward G. Robinson

topic: People, Youth, Menace

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

- Edwin Arlington Robinson

topic: Youth, Arlington

Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.

- Eli Roth

source: Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 25, 2010.

topic: Dunkin Donuts, Youth, Parking, Parking Lot, Donuts

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

source: Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.51

topic: Development, Youth, Glory

Hold fast to youth and beauty.

- Elizabeth Arden

topic: Youth, Hold Fast

Hold fast to life and youth.

- Elizabeth Arden

topic: Life, Youth, Hold Fast

Here in the city the worst thing that can happen to a nation has happened: we are a people afraid of its youth.

- Elizabeth Hardwick

source: Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

topic: Cities, People, Youth

No exchange rate for the confidence of youth.

- Elizabeth Strout

topic: Youth, Rate

Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.

topic: Reality, Age, Youth

But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

topic: Courage, Culture, Youth, Insolent

Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

topic: Age, Youth

There is no easy fix or youth unemployment. Partnership between the public and private sectors can make a big difference.

topic: Years, Want, Youth

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

topic: Differences, Unemployment, Youth

There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

- Elliott Gould

topic: Conceited, Arrogant, Youth

Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.

- Ellis Peters

topic: Heart, Quality, Youth, Heart Ache

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

- Emma Stone

topic: Acting, Comedy, Youth, Improv Comedy, Sketch Comedy

I feel close to the rebelliousness of the youth here. Perhaps time will seperate us , but nobody can deny that here, behind the windows of Manchester, there is an insane love of football, of celebration and of music.

- Eric Cantona

source: "They Said It: Eric Cantona". www.fifa.com. August 27, 2010.

topic: Football, Insane, Youth

Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Time, Youth, Talent

A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: People, Age, Youth, Compilation, Age Of 20

I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'

- Ernest Cline

source: "‘Ready Player One’: An Interview with Author Ernest Cline". Interview with Rebecca Serle, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2011.

topic: Silly, Thinking, Youth

Yeah, I've had an odd youth, But I wouldn't know the difference if I'd lived it any other way. And I wouldn't change any of it because I quite like what I'm doing.

- Estella Warren

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Differences, Way, Youth

A young girl's heart is indestructible.

- Esther Hautzig

source: Esther Hautzig (1968). “The endless steppe: a girl in exile”, Scholastic

topic: Girl, Heart, Youth, Indestructible

Youth holds no society with grief.

- Euripides

topic: Time, Grief, Youth

war made by age and fought by youth while age looked on and applauded and encored.

- Evadne Price

topic: War, Age, Youth

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

- Evelyn Waugh

topic: Men, Youth, Fit

It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted.

- Ewan McGregor

topic: Important, Spirit, Youth

She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Moving, World, Youth, Lost Youth, Tender Is The Night

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Dream, Time, Youth

I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Dream, Stars, Youth

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

- Felix de Weldon

topic: Art, Expression, Youth

I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.

- Francesca Annis

topic: People, Arrogance, Youth, Arrogance Of Youth

Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes

- Francis Parker Yockey

topic: Ideas, Atmosphere, Youth, Leftists, American Youth

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

- Francis Picabia

topic: Time, Men, Youth

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

- Francis Picabia

topic: Knowledge, Errors, Youth

I am the president of the youth of France.

- Francois Hollande

topic: President, France, Youth

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.

- Frank Abagnale

topic: Technology, Today, Youth

Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

topic: Age, Quality, Youth

We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Relationship, Future, Youth

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

- Franz Grillparzer

topic: Past, Adults, Youth, Youth Life

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.

- Franz Kafka

topic: Youth, Capacity, Inspirational Beauty, Milestone Birthday, Old Birthday

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

- Franz Kafka

topic: Happy Birthday, Beauty, Youth

They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something.

- Freddie Mercury

topic: Russia, Youth

Lightly I sped when hope was high And youth beguiled the chase,-- I follow, follow still: But I Shall never see her face.

- Frederick Locker-Lampson

source: Frederick Locker-Lampson (1874). “London Lyrics”, p.188

topic: Disappointment, Faces, Youth, Sped

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Age, Youth, Clarity, Clarity Of Thought, Profundity

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

- Friedrich Schiller

topic: Time, Youth, Seducing

Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.

- Gail Godwin

topic: Youth, Danger, Young

You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.

- Gary Lutz

topic: Tired, Youth, Wonder

Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old.

- George Berkeley

topic: May, Youth, Grows

Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth. Take on new influences without fear and you need not fear what is new. Change the people around you by changing the people around you.

- George Clinton

source: George Clinton (2014). “Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard On You?: A Memoir”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

topic: People, Needs, Youth

Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.

- George Crabbe

source: 'The Borough' (1810) Letter 3 'The Vicar' l. 138

topic: Done, Tests, Youth

There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.

- George Eliot

topic: Eras, Youth, Something Better, New Era

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

- George Henry Borrow

source: 'Lavengro' (1851) ch. 92

topic: Dog, Youth, Fine

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

- George Herbert

topic: Time, Youth, Break

At sixty a man has passed most of the reefs and whirlpools....That man has awakened to a new youth....Ergo, he is young.

- George Luks

topic: Birthday, Men, Youth, Whirlpools, Awakened

Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now.

- George Pope Morris

source: "Woodman, Spare That Tree" l. 1 (1830) See Thomas Campbell 2

topic: Tree, Youth, Protect

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age

- George Santayana

topic: Inspiration, Age, Youth, Limbo, Writing Dialogue

[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.

- George Washington

topic: Friendship, Sticks, Youth

The future of this nation depends on the Christian training of our youth.

- George Washington

topic: Christian, Training, Youth

I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.

- Georgette Heyer

topic: Daylight, Abduction, Youth, Modern Youth

In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player.

- Georgie Fame

topic: Player, Rugby, Youth

California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices ...

- Gertrude Atherton

source: Gertrude Atherton (2014). “The Avalanche”, p.101, The Floating Press

topic: California, Vices, Youth

One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between being younger or older.

- Gertrude Stein

topic: Different, Youth, Aging

I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.

- Gertrude Stein

topic: Tired, Age, Youth

They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured smile.

- Giacomo Casanova

topic: Sports, Squash, Youth

Man is doomed either squander his youth, which is the only time he has to store provisions for the coming years and provide for his own well-being, or to spend his youth procuring pleasures in advance for that time of life when he will be too old to enjoy them.

- Giacomo Leopardi

topic: Men, Years, Youth, Only Time

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

- Glen Duncan

source: Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.133, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: World, Youth, Egotism

Every youth movement presents itself as a loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled.

- Greil Marcus

source: Greil Marcus (2014). “Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century”, p.20, Faber & Faber

topic: Trying, Movement, Youth

I spent all my youth with horses.

- Guillaume Canet

source: "Tell everyone" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2007.

topic: Horse, Youth

Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between.

- Gustav Stresemann

topic: Taken, Outcomes, Youth

In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent collapse of the whole edifice of civilization had made an appointment.

- Guy Debord

topic: Civilization, Youth, Made, Portents, Appointments

How ruthless and vile and hard and right the young are.

- Hal Porter

topic: Youth, Young

Those who have the youth on their side control the future.

- Hans Schemm

topic: Sides, Youth

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

- Havelock Ellis

source: "The Task of Social Hygiene". Book by Havelock Ellis, ch. 1, 1912.

topic: Men, Foundation, Youth, Comradeship

I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away. I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again.... I don't want to do this for the rest of my life....I don't want to spend the rest of my youth doing this in this industry. There's so much I want to discover.

- Heath Ledger

topic: Fun, Want, Youth

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

- Hector Hugh Munro

source: Reginald (1904) "Reginald at the Carlton"

topic: Age, Youth, Young

All our dreams begin in youth.

- Heinrich Harrer

source: Heinrich Harrer (1997). “Seven Years in Tibet”, Tarcher

topic: Dream, Youth

Time--our youth--it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

- Helen Hooven Santmyer

topic: Mind, Doe, Youth

Fear is for the old. Lack of it is one of the joys of youth.

- Helen Van Slyke

topic: Fear, Joy, Youth

We can either allow our youth to shoot baskets or watch them continue to shoot people.

- Henry Cisneros

topic: People, Watches, Youth

Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme, Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay; Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime, For oh, it is not always May!

Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

topic: Simple, May, Youth

What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love; To build a new life on a ruined life.

topic: Age, Crowns, Youth, Wrenches

The thoughts of Youth are long, long thoughts

topic: And Love, New Life, Youth, Ruined Life