Youth Quotes - Page 16

• The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Life, Thinking, Interesting

  24 Copy quote

• I was reading some complex books in my own youth-and no, I didnt always understand every word, let alone every concept-but I got the main thrust, which was like a lifeline in a fluctuating world.

  Tanith Lee

  Book, Reading, World

  4 Copy quote

• See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.

  J. P. Donleavy

  Hands, Age, Faces

  7 Copy quote

• If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity is aching, the same inexorable agents which prevent a mass from changing suddenly its velocity would likewise resist the force of the new knowledge until time gradually modifies human thought.

  Nikola Tesla

  Humanity, Secret, Genius

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.538, Simon and Schuster

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• Language of the Gun shows why Bernard Harcourt has earned a reputation as one of our most provocative and informative analysts of the administration of criminal justice. Thoroughly interdisciplinary, he brings to bear on his subject a remarkably wide range of sources. Most striking are his probing interviews with at-risk youths which provide a fascinating and rare glimpse into how they think about guns and gun carrying. This book bristles with insight and information.

  Randall Kennedy

  Book, Thinking, Gun

  9 Copy quote

• I have seen some terrifically exciting changes with young players coming into the squad which is reinvigorated. The older players and the whole group has been refreshed by the youth and enthusiasm that has come into the team. I think that has been misunderstood and misrepresented in certain quarters to the detriment of Indian cricket.

  Greg Chappell

  Team, Player, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• Come back, true love! Sweet youth, return!—
  But time goes on, and will, unheeding,
  Though hands will reach, and eyes will yearn,
  And the wild days set true hearts bleeding.

  Conrad Aiken

  Sweet, Heart, Eye

  Conrad Aiken (1961). “Selected Poems”, p.273, Oxford University Press on Demand

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles.

  Paul McAllister

  School, College, Coaching

  48 Copy quote

• If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins. For what is the flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland.

  Chandra Shekhar Azad

  Freedom, Blood, Water

  "Character: Chandra Shekhar Azad". "Rang De Basanti", www.imdb.com. 2006.

  661 Copy quote

  Show source

• Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do

  Rakim

  Honesty, Speak, Teach

  148 Copy quote

• I've experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I am encouraged that the federal government is taking an active role in the Cascade Youth and Family Center.

  Greg Walden

  Government, Hands, Organization

  83 Copy quote

• I've got two shirts still missing from the Bahamas. I'm sure they are part of a youth camping programme somewhere in Tanzania by now.

  David Lange

  Two, Missing, Bahamas

  "Sunday Herald" Newspaper, August 7, 2005.

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.

  Paul Cezanne

  Ideas, Giving, Spots

  4 Copy quote

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

  Tom Lehrer

  Girl, Fronts

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 3 Jan. 1982

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Escaping, Giving

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.3, A&C Black

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.

  Salvador Dali

  Youth Of Today, Today, Problem

  23 Copy quote

• Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

  Peter Medawar

  Growing Up, Anger, Hunting

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.116, Oxford University Press, USA

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

  Jeremy Collier

  Book, Age, Entertainment

  Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.

  Austin O'Malley

  Knowledge, Games, Damage

  8 Copy quote

• Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the years. Many views that I held to in my youth and long afterwards are a pain to me now, and I am carrying away from Thrums memories of errors into which I fell at every stage of my ministry. When you are older you will know that life is a long lesson in humility.

  James M. Barrie

  Pain, Memories, Humility

  "The Little Minister". Book by James M. Barrie, 1891.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Joy, Perception

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.41, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let us pass to the despotic part of the soul, spirit. We must not eliminate it utterly from the youth nor yet allow  him to use it all the time. Let us train boys from earliest childhood to be patient when they suffer wrongs themselves, but, if they see another being wronged, to sally forth courageously and aid the sufferer in fitting measure.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Boys, Childhood, Soul

  7 Copy quote

• To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started.

  Ayn Rand

  Vision, Ends, Unchanging

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.689, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister - corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear. The rest of the time everybody assumes that they are hard at work somewhere down in the sub-basement, keeping those foundations in good repair. Nobody much cares what brand of intellectual duct tape is being used.

  Richard Rorty

  Civilization, Intellectual, Foundation

  "Philosophical Convictions". The Nation, June 14, 2004.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I’m a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It’s certainly the most miserable state to be in but it’s also tremendously gratifying, really—rage feels justified. And it’s an excellent substitute for action. Why would you want to sacrifice rage to go about the long, difficult, dreary business of making something more tolerable?

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Sacrifice, Long, Experts

  4 Copy quote