Best 1761 quotes in «youth quotes» category

In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology.

In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.

In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.

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

In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics.

In one's youth, one has tremendous access to one's feelings. And as one gets older, some of those feelings kind of drift away. But so much more happens to you. There's more at stake in life.

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

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

In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.

In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'

In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow

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.

In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears

In youth, the absense of pleasure is pain, in old age, the absence of pain is pleasure.

In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.

In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward.

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.

In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation.

In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.

In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.

I sighed; as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.

It actually took me 20 years to want to write about my youth. I was definitely always a little intimidated about writing about that part of my life.

In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.

It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures.

in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.

It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away.

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

I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works.

it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.

I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.

It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.

Italy is not widely thought of as a pioneer of youth culture in the way, say, the UK is.

It is not age which killed Boston, for no cities die of age; it is the youth of other cities.

It's a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond requires a degree of youthful intrigue. Love loves its youth.

It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future

It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

It's important to me that youth everywhere, no matter their race, religion, or gender, know that anything is possible with perseverance.

It's hard enough to go through puberty. Everyone's embarassed about their youth, but if just happens that the '80s were particularly disgusting. Flock of Seagulls is not cool.

It's lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It's lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.

It's my job to spread deviance to the American youth.

I usually play disenfranchised youth

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

I've been playing youth basketball ever since I was in sixth grade; I've been traveling ever since I was in sixth grade, so I'm used to it.

I want to see Colombian youth become the best-educated in Latin America by 2025.

I've never had any interest in retelling stories from my youth.