YOUTH QUOTES VI

quotations about youth

Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever?

ALPHAVILLE

"Forever Young"


It must be a very weary day to the youth when he first discovers that, after all, he will only become a man.

ARTHUR HELPS

Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

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The category of youth is the product of innumerable forms of assessment, intervention and normalisation, as well as the vehicle for achieving a range of social and governmental objectives. In addition, youth is not a singular entity, but rather an entire range of sub-categories: the 'delinquent' youth, the 'subcultural' youth, the 'at-risk' youth.

GORDON TAIT

Making Sense of Mass Education


The retrospect on youth is too often like looking back on what was a fair and promising country, but is now desolated by an overwhelming torrent, from which we have just escaped. Or it is like visiting the grave of a friend whom we had injured, and are precluded by his death from the possibility of making him an atonement.

JOHN FOSTER

John Foster: Life and Thoughts


Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?

JULIAN BARNES

The Sense of an Ending

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My youth is the foundation of me.

KHALID

"American Teen"


For youth, everything is sport.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.

LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON

Ethel Churchill: or, The Two Brides


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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Youth is not like a new garment which we can keep fresh and fair by wearing sparingly; youth, while we have it, we must wear daily, and it will fast wear away.

JOHN FOSTER

John Foster: Life and Thoughts


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

JULIAN KIMBLE

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


There may be no fool like an old fool, but our observation has been that the young fool runs him a pretty close second.

ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES

Poems and Paragraphs

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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

speech at University of Cape Town, South Africa, Jun. 6, 1966


The magnet does not more surely and powerfully attract the needle, than youth by some electric sympathy of soul is attracted by youth.

ROBERT SHELTON MACKENZIE

Titian: A Romance of Venice


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.

VIRGIL

Georgics

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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

ANONYMOUS

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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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Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties,
And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.

HILAIRE BELLOC

"Habitations", Sonnets and Verses

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Heh? Eh? Our youth is dead.
From the minute we discover it with eyes closed
Advancing into mountain light.
Ouch.

JOHN ASHBERY

"Our Youth Is Dead", The Tennis Court Oath: A Book of Poems

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Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.

LEWIS H. LAPHAM

"Fortune's Child", Lapham's Quarterly: Youth

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