Youth Quotes - Page 6

• Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Substance, World

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.461, e-artnow

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• In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.

  Henry Suso

  Voice, Saws, Firsts

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• Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.

  John Jay Chapman

  Secret, Generations, Enthusiasm

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs”

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• Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Rivers, Feet, Childhood

  'Michael Angelo' (1883) pt. 1, sect. 5

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• Of a young hermit, an old devil.
  [Fr., De jeune hermite, vieil diable.]

  Francois Rabelais

  Devil, Hermits, Young

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• Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands on a continent and clasps the crest of an ocean in either hand. Our nation, glorious in youth and strength, looks into the future with eager eyes and rejoices as a strong man to run a race.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Strong, Ocean

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.10, Taylor Trade Publications

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• You are never too old to become younger!

  Mae West

  Sarcastic, Witty, Humorous

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• As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Past, Adults, Live In The Present

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• Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Birthday, Age, Aging

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• No one who is young is ever going to be old.

  John Steinbeck

  Eden, Young, East Of Eden

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.82, Penguin

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• No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline.

  Kofi Annan

  Cutting, People, Democracy

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• The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

  George Orwell

  Children, Real, Thinking

  George Orwell (2017). “The Collected Non-Fiction”, Penguin UK

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• There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Ignorance, Vanity, Pay

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.197

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• This is not class warfare, this is generational warfare. This administration and old wealthy people have declared war on young people. That is the real war that is going on here. And that is the war we've got to talk about.

  James Carville

  Real, War, Class

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• I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Teacher, Heart

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• Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

  Hannah More

  Luxury, Storm, Poverty

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• You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

  Moliere

  Essence, People, Want

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.44, Penguin

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• Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Blow, Sky, Doe

  STEPHEN VINCENT BENET (1928). “JOHN BROWN'S BODY”

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• What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Mistake, Passion, Stronger

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• Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.

  Jean Cocteau

  Accepting, Certain, Rejects

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• Things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.

  Paul Fussell

  Boys, Defense, Kitten

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• We must all work together to end youth homelessness in America

  Jewel

  America, Working Together, Homelessness

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• Life in a shelter or on the streets puts homeless kids and youth at a higher risk for physical and sexual assault and abuse, physical illness, including HIV/AIDS

  Jewel

  Kids, Risk, Abuse

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• Support for shelters and transitional living and housing programs is necessary if we are going to change the landscape for homeless boys and girls in America.

  Jewel

  Girl, Boys, America

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• What I know about street outreach is that it is essential to dealing with the issue of youth homelessness.

  Jewel

  Issues, Essentials, Homeless

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