Youth Quotes - Page 38

• Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.

  Ben Jonson

  Age, Example, Fallen

  Ben Jonson, Robert S. Miola (2000). “Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version”, p.251, Manchester University Press

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• The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.

  Mason Cooley

  Real, Mirrors, Literature

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• It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Being Yourself, Children, Responsibility

  Simone de Beauvoir (1968). “Les Belles Images”

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• The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Love, Heart, Forever

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.159

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• On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.

  Amy Lowell

  Maturity, Men, Necks

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• I can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had.

  Art Buchwald

  Home, Marine, Hesitation

  Art Buchwald (1994). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Thorndike Pr

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• Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

  Jim Bishop

  Including

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• Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.

  Jacques Barzun

  Self, Loving You, Adults

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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• The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

  Plutarch

  Needs, Pleasure, Adolescence

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• Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

  Anton Chekhov

  Art, Miscarriage, Grumbling

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, December 27, 1889.

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• If we have youth, beauty, blessed gifts, strength, if we find fame, fortune, favor, fulfillment, it is easy to be nice, to turn a warm heart to the world.

  Oliver Sacks

  Nice, Blessed, Heart

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• The response of teenagers to their idols is relevant. As an audience, they enjoy themselves, not by screaming with laughter, but screaming with screams.

  Desmond Morris

  Laughter, Teenager, Idols

  Desmond Morris (1967). “The Naked Ape”

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• Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Judgement, Amplification, Glory

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• Do you want to know what I most regret about my youth? That I didn't dream more boldly and demand of myself more impossible things; for all one does in maturity is to carve in granite or porphyry the soap bubble one blew in youth! Oh to have dreamed harder!

  Lewis Mumford

  Dream, Regret, Maturity

  Lewis Mumford (1975). “Findings and keepings: analects for an autobiography”, Not Avail

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• Where's the hope that can abate
  The grief of hearts thus desolate
  That can Youth's keenest pangs assuage,
  And mitigate the gloom of Age?
  Religion bids the tempest cease,
  And, leads her to a port of peace;
  And on, the lonely pilot steers
  Through the lapse of future years.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Hope, Lonely, Grief

  Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems”, p.103

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• Here in the city the worst thing that can happen to a nation has happened: we are a people afraid of its youth.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Cities, People, Worst

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

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• We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was associated with freedom, vitality, and eternal youth.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Heart, Vitality

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• Through SCP Auctions, the Garvey family will also continue to share our great love for baseball by donating time and dollars to youth baseball programs.

  Steve Garvey

  Baseball, Great Love, Auctions

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• Every major industrial society believes that it has a serious youth problem.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Believe, Serious, Problem

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• Adolescents tend to be passionate people, and passion is no less real because it is directed toward a hot-rod, a commercialized popular singer, or the leader of a black-jacketed gang.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Real, Passion, People

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• For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment in the height of prosperity; then at life's end with limbs worn out by old age and wrinkles adorning his face, like an actor he retires behind the curtain of death.

  Bhartrhari

  Boys, Men, Wrinkles

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• Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Wisdom, Practice, Age

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• True, I used to see a lot of hope. I saw men tear down the veils behind which the truth had been hidden. But then the same men, when they have power in their hands at last, began to find the veils useful. They made many more. Life has not changed. Only some people have been growing, becoming different, that is all. After a youth spent fighting the white man, why should not the president discover as he grows older that his real desire has been to be like the white governor himself, to live above all the blackness in the big old slave castle?

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Real, Fighting, Men

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• Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on the sea of death. For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but Truth.

  John Masefield

  Truth, Men, Sea

  John Masefield (1946). “Poems”

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• How ruthless and vile and hard and right the young are.

  Hal Porter

  Young, Ruthless, Hard

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