Youth Quotes - Page 14

• In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Joy, Perception

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.41, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I’m a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It’s certainly the most miserable state to be in but it’s also tremendously gratifying, really—rage feels justified. And it’s an excellent substitute for action. Why would you want to sacrifice rage to go about the long, difficult, dreary business of making something more tolerable?

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Sacrifice, Long, Experts

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• Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;
  Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

  George Peele

  Flower, Roots, Fading

  'Polyhymnia' (1590) ad fin. 'Sonnet'

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• Britney Spears. Because she's a girl, I wouldn't smack her - I'd lock her in a closet with poisonous spiders or something. Let her think about what she's doing to the youth culture of America.

  Brandon Boyd

  Girl, Thinking, America

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• Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Children, Fun, Emotional

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• It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Educational, Successful, Opportunity

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• To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.

  Connie Willis

  Dog, Sacrifice, Cost

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• If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Dream, Needs, World

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• No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.

  Ellen Terry

  Loss, Skills, Actresses

  Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

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• Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.

  Booth Tarkington

  Christmas, Children, Holiday

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.82, Booklassic

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• I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.

  Charles Sumner

  Men, Sensual, Known

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• Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

  Honore de Balzac

  Failure, Remembrance, Age

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• They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something.

  Freddie Mercury

  Russia

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• Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce

  Gavin Newsom

  Art, Self Esteem, Kids

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• I declare the 20th Winter Games closed. I call upon the youth of the world to assemble four years from now in Vancouver, to celebrate the 21st Olympic Winter Games.

  Jacques Rogge

  Winter, Years, Games

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• To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again

  Mary Stewart

  Sleep, Air, Years

  Mary Stewart (1978). “Hollow Hills”, Fawcett

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• Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world.

  Che Guevara

  Ideas, World, Guerrilla Warfare

  "On Revolutionary Medicine". Speech delivered to the Cuban Militia, www.marxists.org. August 19, 1960.

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• Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service. The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible.

  Che Guevara

  Military, Ungrateful, Spirit

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• My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In this my native land – in the land of my sires – I am degraded without fault as an alien and an outcast.

  Daniel O'Connell

  Flower, Land, Faults

  Daniel O'Connell (1854). “The Select Speeches of Daniel O'Connell, M. P.”, p.81

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• But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying the analogy of an art with hard and fast rules to a creative process

  Isocrates

  Art, Men, Creative

  Isocrates (1962). “Isocrates”, Loeb Classical Library

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• All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all these shivering putrefying bodies and portions of bodies once warm living and tender parts of Irish men and youths - all these horrors in Flanders or the Gallipoli Peninsula, are all items in the price Ireland pays for being part of the British Empire.

  James Connolly

  Eye, Men, Hands

  James Connolly (1988). “Collected Works: Labour and Easter Week”

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• Timing is everything. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how far he is likely to go in the world. The popular notion is that a youth's progress depends upon how he acts during his working hours. It doesn't. It depends far more upon how he utilizes his leisure...If he spends it in harmless idleness, he is likely to be kept on the payroll, but that will be about all. If he diligently utilizes his own time...to fit himself for more responsible duties, then the greater responsibilities - and greater rewards - are almost certain to come to him.

  B. C. Forbes

  Time, Responsibility, Men

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• Automobiles will start to decline almost as soon as the last shot is fired in World War II. The name of Igor Sikorsky will be as wellknown as Henry Ford's, for his helicopter will all but replace the horseless carriage as the new means of popular transportation. Instead of a car in every garage, there will be a helicopter.... These 'copters' will be so safe and will cost so little to produce that small models will be made for teenage youngsters. These tiny 'copters, when school lets out, will fill the sky as the bicycles of our youth filled the prewar roads.

  Harry Bruno

  Teenage, War, School

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• Only to youth will spring be spring.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Children, Spring

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.237, Delphi Classics

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• The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense of freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the making of a poem.

  May Swenson

  Play, Roots, Degrees

  May Swenson, Gardner McFall (1998). “Made with words”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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