YOUTH QUOTES VII

quotations about youth

My youth is the foundation of me.

KHALID

"American Teen"


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


Every thing is pretty that is young.

SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Pamela

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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 yearns to youth, full blood loves full blood only.

CONRAD AIKEN

"Youth"

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Youth is the ultimate limited resource.

WILLIAM SHATNER

The Ashes of Eden

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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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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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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 is when you are supposed to question who you are and what you believe, when the values and personhood given to you by your society and family are subject to critical examination so that you can redefine your own being.

JOE MARIANI

"On snow and God and Swarthmore", Swarthmore Phoenix, March 16, 2017


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


Tell me, why are the old friends kind,
And ever the tenderest, too?
Youth has no art, but an open mind,
And its love is sincere and true.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"Tell Me"

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

ARTHUR C. CLARKE

2010: Odyssey Two

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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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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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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.

JEAN COCTEAU

The Difficulty of Being

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

ANONYMOUS

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The young are always in extremes.

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Lodore

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The sport of youth is the terror of age.

ZORZI

attributed, Day's Collacon


Youth is no excuse for sloppiness.

LISA GARDNER

The Perfect Husband

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