Youth Quotes - Page 8

• He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.

  Josiah Johnson Hawes

  Age, Who Cares, Niggard

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• Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.

  Jean Ingelow

  Inspirational, Teenage, Teens

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.83

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• The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

  Doris Lessing

  Thought Provoking, Provoking

  Doris Lessing (2010). “Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5”, p.453, Vintage

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• A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven.

  William Wordsworth

  Heaven, Earth, Given

  William Wordsworth (1835). “The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc”, p.88

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• Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs its lifeline; it is condemned to bleed to death.

  Kofi Annan

  Cutting, People, Birth

  "Young People, the Change Makers!" by Marsida Bandilli, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2015.

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• The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Soul, Admiration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.99, Library of America

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• The joy of the young is to disobey

  Jean Cocteau

  Joy, Young

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• Most homeless kids are on the streets because they have been forced by circumstances that cause them to think that they are safer there than in any home they once knew.

  Jewel

  Kids, Home, Thinking

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• Fame is the thirst of youth.

  Lord Byron

  Literature, Fame, Thirst

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.63, Routledge

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• The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Happiness, Joy, Trying

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1966). “The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge”

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• Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Time, Seducing, Covetousness

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• Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is new, And all is lovely.

  Hannah More

  Glowing, Color, Ideas

  Hannah More (1830). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.52

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• The young are always in extremes.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Young, Extremes

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.62

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• In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, 4th Of July, America

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1024, GENERAL PRESS

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• It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

  Helen Keller

  Civilization, Literature, World

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• The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist.

  Jane Addams

  Elderly, Rebel, Tasks

  Jane Addams (1930). “The second twenty years at Hull-House, September 1909 to September 1929, with a record of a growing world consciousness”

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• Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wounds

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “Can Such Things Be?”, p.30, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.

  William Allen White

  Moving, Order, World

  "Student Riots", editorial in "The Emporia (Kansas) Gazette" (April 8, 1932); reported in "Forty Years on Main Street" compiled by Russell H. Fitzgibbon, (p. 331), 1937.

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• With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

  Glen Duncan

  World, Egotism, Lots Of Money

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.133, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The pleasure and sadness of youth is that the speed of its passing is never thought about; and so you say that you will do this or that in a year, in five years, only to wake up one morning to realize that what you thought was infinitely prolonged has ended.

  Derek Tangye

  Morning, Sadness, Years

  "The Way to Minack". Book by Derek Tangye, 1968.

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• You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

  Samuel Ullman

  Birthday, Confidence, Self

  "The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood" by Jane Manner, (p. 323-24), 1934.

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• Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Happy Birthday, Twilight, Opportunity

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

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• What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Men, Fit, Ready

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

  Cyril Connolly

  Opportunity, Missed Opportunity, Periods

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• Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

  Anita Brookner

  Time, Freedom, Sometimes

  Anita Brookner (1986). “The Misalliance”, Pantheon

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