Youth Quotes - Page 37

• One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.

  John Burroughs

  Past, May, Return

  John Burroughs (1906). “Bird and Bough”

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• We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and liberty than their youth can handle, by indoctrinating them with sinister ideologies and false values, by permitting them, as young children, to indulge themselves in imprudence to superiors and defiance of duly constituted authority, by lack of prudent, swift punishment when the transgressed, by coddling and pampering them when they were children and protecting them from a very dangerous world.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Children, Parenting, Dangerous World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Girl, Children, May

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of lies and foolish nonsense, mixed in with essential truths, that the first duty of the adolescent who wants to be a healthy man is to disgorge it all.

  Romain Rolland

  Children, Lying, Men

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• We think in youth that our bodies are identical to ourselves and have the same interests, but discover later in life that they are heartless companions who have been accidentally yoked with us, and who are as likely as not, in our extreme sickness or old age, to treat us with less mercy than we would have received at the hands of the worst bandits.

  Rebecca West

  Thinking, Later In Life, Hands

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.382, Open Road Media

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• When our young people can find meaningful work, we all benefit. This youth jobs strategy would help connect youth with careers they can build on and equip them with the skills they need to thrive in today's global economy.

  Kathleen Wynne

  Meaningful, Jobs, Careers

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• Time--our youth--it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

  Helen Hooven Santmyer

  Mind, Doe

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• Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Prejudice, Taught

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.355, Diversion Books

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• We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

  William Wordsworth

  Madness, Poet, Ends

  "Resolution and Independence" l. 43 (1807)

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• A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.

  Aldous Huxley

  Years, People, Majority

  Interview with Raymond Fraser, George Wickes, The Paris Review, Issue 23, 1960.

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• If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything, while age Knows only too well that it has got away with nothing.

  W. H. Auden

  Believe, Wicked, Age

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• You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores or in the fields or along the winding red roads of Prince Edward Island in a summer twilight when the dew is falling and the old stars are peeping out and the sea keeps its mighty tryst with the little land it loves. You find your soul then. You realize that youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Summer, Stars, Fall

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• Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.

  T. S. Eliot

  Mean, Men, Age

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• A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fire, Age, Old Age

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.57

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• Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Fire, Gambling, Flax

  "Poor Richard's Almanack" by Benjamin Franklin, 1736.

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• Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth.

  Haim Ginott

  Stress, Growth, Storm

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• Wise parents know that fighting a teenager, like fighting a riptide, is inviting doom.

  Haim Ginott

  Wise, Teenager, Fighting

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• It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts.

  George Orwell

  Uncles, Aunt, Hands

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.125, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All young people want to kick up their heels and defy convention; most of them would prefer to do it at a not too heavy cost.

  Elmer Davis

  People, Cost, Want

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• Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

  Maya Angelou

  Adults, Teens, Pressure

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.208, Modern Library

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• While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.

  Isak Dinesen

  Failure, Ideas, Bears

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.10, Vintage

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• In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue.

  Samuel Johnson

  Age, World, Opinion

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.179

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• Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old!

  Herman Melville

  Elderly, Immortal, Grows

  Herman Melville (1924). “The Works of Herman Melville: Redburn”

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• Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Long, Way, Facts

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.

  Robert Southey

  Age, Aging, Forgotten

  "The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them" l. 21 (1799)

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