Best 1761 quotes in «youth quotes» category

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.

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.

[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business.

Our demographic dividend is our strength. The youth have what it takes to engage with the latest technology.

Our culture puts a lot of pressure on the idea that a woman's self-worth is defined by her looks. It's just awful. And they also put a tremendous premier on youth, which is so, so debilitating and upsetting to so many women. I don't know why they're so dopey. Seriously. I don't see any problem with that and if you do, you should celebrate it. Don't chop your face up.

O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.

Our duty is to understand youth, but more, to help them understand themselves that they may release their varied abilities... We must help them to discover a life work, not work for life.

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

Our youth are not failing the system; the system is failing our youth. Ironically, the very youth who are being treated the worst are the young people who are going to lead us out of this nightmare.

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

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.

Ponce de Leon, who said when he discovered the Fountain of Youth, Where the hell are the paper cups? Never got a dinner!

People don't see hunger in front of them so they are not directly affected. What I am doing is connecting young people to the issue

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

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.

Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more to give.

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.

Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill!

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Reckless youth makes rueful age.

Sending our youth to war is wrong.

Satan knows that youth is the springtime of life when all things are new and young people are most vulnerable.

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.

Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides.

Saints preserve us,' Dr. Kellen said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. 'What have we done to our youth?

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?

Since time immemorial, youth has set the universal standard of physical beauty, and the reason is simply that a shapely firm young face and body are more attractive sexually and aesthetically than bulges, sags and wrinkles.

So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.

Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.

Some people have youth, some have beauty – I have menace.

Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.

Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do

Talking death seriously is one of the tragedies of youth

That furniture cost me a fortune! It's designer furniture." "Designed by whom ? Darth Vader ? The Hitler Youth ?

The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.