Mary Roberts Rinehart Quotes About Youth

Quotes about: Youth

• I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Peace, Hate, War

• Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Tree, Mind, Age

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1936). “The doctor”

• What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Tragedy, Experience, Generations

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1972). “Lost Ecstasy”

• The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Distance, Home, College

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