Youth Quotes - Page 22

• Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Prayer, Children

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.397

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• I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

  William Butler Yeats

  Phoenix

  'His Phoenix'

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• If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate them in their historical youth, when their state of development was comparable to our own at the present time. Otherwise we should behave like boys who try to copy the imposing manners of full-grown men without understanding their raison d' être, also without seeing that in development one cannot jump over intermediate and preliminary phases.

  Wolfgang Kohler

  Boys, Men, Psychology

  "Gestalt Psychology". Book by Wolfgang Köhler, p. 32, 1930.

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• Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the wise link the joy of knowledge to youth's dream? Will ever the day come when Nature becomes the teacher of man, humanity his book and life his school? Youth's joyous purpose cannot be fulfilled until that day comes. Too slow is our march toward spiritual elevation, because we make so little use of youth's ardor.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Wise, Dream

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• Man no longer dreams over a book in which a soft voice, a constant companion, observes, exhorts, or sighs with him through the pangs of youth and age. Today he is more likely to sit before a screen and dream the mass dream which comes from outside.

  Loren Eiseley

  Dream, Book, Men

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.117, Library of America

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• I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar.

  Trevor Horn

  Play, Horny, Orchestra

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• Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; they are companions by night, and in travel, and in the country.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Country, Book, Home

  "The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero".

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• We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung; And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Love, Truth, Done

  Rudyard Kipling (2012). “Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.

  Homer

  Love, Power, Grace

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.333

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• Gather, gather your youth: Just like this flower, old age Your beauty will wither.

  Pierre de Ronsard

  Beauty, Flower, Justice

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• Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wisdom, Passion, Bridges

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• There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.

  Confucius

  Strong, Men, Lust

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• Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth.

  Knut Hamsun

  Important, Matter, Today

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Glasses, Long

  Sonnet 22

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• Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.

  Booth Tarkington

  Romance, Imagine

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.32, Booklassic

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• Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!

  Charles Lamb

  Sweet, Time, Home

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• People say 'teenage girls aren't so clever. Your characters should be less articulate to reflect our youth.' People who say that aren't spending time with teenagers.

  Diablo Cody

  Girl, Clever, Teenage

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• One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges.

  Judith Martin

  Emotional, Ties, People

  Judith Martin (1996). “Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson”

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• Note that I hold the single-author record for total CERT advisories, proving that in my copious youth I knew how to sling code but not how to manage risk.

  Paul Vixie

  Risk, Records, Notes

  NANOG mailing list, 2002.

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• Give (your people) the youth a proper environment. Motivate them. Extend them the support they need. Each one of them has infinite source of energy. They will deliver.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  People, Giving, Support

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• Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young.

  Mary Schmich

  Advice, Like You, Young

  "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" by Mary Schmich in Chicago Tribune, June 1, 1997.

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• I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn’t quite happen. I guess I’m someone for whom youth still seems more real than the present, or the half century in between. And why not? I'm deeply underwhelmed by most contemporary art, literature, music, films, TV, the heinous little phones, money talk, real estate talk, all that stuff. The Internet, which at first seemed so fascinating, appears to be evolving into something even worse than TV, but we'll see.

  Donald Fagen

  Art, Growing Up, Real

  Donald Fagen (2013). “Eminent Hipsters”, p.5, Penguin

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• Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Ideas, Atmosphere, Breathe

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• Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.

  Larry Merchant

  Too Much, Talent, Hunger

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• The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Teenage, Years, Culture

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