Youth Quotes - Page 19

• Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Passion, Age, Tasks

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1909). “The Map of Life”

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• I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.

  Patrick Roy

  Dream, Adventure, Challenges

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• Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister - corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear. The rest of the time everybody assumes that they are hard at work somewhere down in the sub-basement, keeping those foundations in good repair. Nobody much cares what brand of intellectual duct tape is being used.

  Richard Rorty

  Civilization, Intellectual, Foundation

  "Philosophical Convictions". The Nation, June 14, 2004.

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• The dual substance of Christ - the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God. [...] has always been a deep inscrutable mystery to me. [...] My principle anguish and source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh. [...] And my soul is the arena where these two armies have clashed and met.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Army, Men, Two

  "The Last Temptation of Christ". Book by Nikos Kazantzakis, Simon and Schuster, Prologue, 2012.

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• I have seen the sun break through
  to illuminate a small field
  for a while, and gone my way
  and forgotten it. But that was the pearl
  of great price, the one field that had
  treasure in it. I realize now
  that I must give all that I have
  to possess it. Life is not hurrying
  on to a receeding future, nor hankering after
  an imagined past. It is the turning
  aside like Moses to the miracle
  of the lit bush, to a brightness
  that seemed as transitory as your youth
  once, but is the eternity that awaits you.

  R. S. Thomas

  Past, Break Through, Giving

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “R. S. Thomas: Everyman Poetry: Everyman's Poetry”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Running, Exercise

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• I think something very weird's going on now, 'cause the power that is permitted to youth is quite extraordinary. And they are sort of run by that kind of power.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Running, Thinking, Causes

  "Edie : Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.

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• I’ve never known fear; as a youth I fought/ In endless battles. I am old, now,/ But I will fight again, seek fame still,/ If the dragon hiding in his tower dares/ To face me

  Burton Raffel

  Fighting, Dragons, Battle

  Burton Raffel, Robert Payson Creed (1963). “Beowulf: A New Translation with an Introduction”

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• Youth take responsibility for your own spiritual well being

  Linda S. Reeves

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Well Being

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• Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world...and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what was I going to do with it? Certainly not squander its gold on the commonplace quest for riches and respectability, and then secretly lament the price that had to be paid for these futile ideals. Let those who wish have their respectability -- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous and the romantic.

  Richard Halliburton

  Beautiful, Indulge In, Wish

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• YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Cities, Honor

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.242, University of Georgia Press

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• Perhaps no promise in life is more reassuring than that promise of divine assistance and spiritual guidance in times of need. It is a gift freely given from heaven, a gift that we need from our earliest youth through the very latest days of our lives.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Life, Spiritual, Heaven

  Howard W. Hunter (1994). “That We Might Have Joy”, Shadow Mountain

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• Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Home, Adversity

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• It is almost impossible for children and youth to find their way through the seas of life without the guiding light of a good example.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Life, Children, Light

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• However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

  Julian Clary

  Loss, Light, Trying

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• Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth.

  Knut Hamsun

  Important, Matter, Today

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wisdom, Passion, Bridges

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• We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung; And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Love, Truth, Done

  Rudyard Kipling (2012). “Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• Homosexuals cannot reproduce-so they must recruit ... and to freshen their ranks they must recruit the youth of America.

  Anita Bryant

  America, Homosexual, Recruit

  Anita Bryant (1977). “The Anita Bryant Story: The Survival of Our Nation's Families and the Threat of Militant Homosexuality”, Fleming H. Revell Company

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• How blessed is he, who leads a country life, Unvex'd with anxious cares, and void of strife! Who studying peace, and shunning civil rage, Enjoy'd his youth, and now enjoys his age: All who deserve his love, he makes his own; And, to be lov'd himself, needs only to be known.

  John Dryden

  Life, Country, Peace

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.312, Delphi Classics

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• I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

  William Butler Yeats

  Phoenix

  'His Phoenix'

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• To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started.

  Ayn Rand

  Vision, Ends, Unchanging

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.689, Penguin

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• Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill

  Fausto Coppi

  Skills, Age, Overcoming

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• Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.

  Olympia Dukakis

  Drama, Age, Example

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; they are companions by night, and in travel, and in the country.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Country, Book, Home

  "The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero".

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