Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes About Youth

Quotes about: Youth

• While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Heart, Age, Youth

• Our dead brothers and sisters still live for us and bid us think of life, not death-of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Death, Brother, Spring

• Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Time, Heart, Fire

  "In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire". Address delivered for Memorial Day at Keene, New Hampshire, before John Sedgwick Post No. 4, Grand Army of the Republic, people.virginia.edu. May 30, 1884.

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