Youth Quotes - Page 40

• In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Honesty, Years, Aging

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• I'll be one year younger having missed my birthday and my mirror confirms it; so what's wrong with that.

  Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire

  Mirrors, Years, Age

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• My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference.

  Lucinda Roy

  Mother, People, Tree

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• He [Jesus] came to save all through himself; all, I say, who through him are reborn in God: infants, and children, and youths, and old men. Therefore he passed through every age, becoming an infant for infants, sanctifying infants; a child for children, sanctifying those who are of that age . . . [so that] he might be the perfect teacher in all things, perfect not only in respect to the setting forth of truth, perfect also in respect to relative age

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Teacher, Jesus, Children

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• I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

  K. D. Lang

  Emotional, Thinking, Singing

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• I was doing a show at the National Youth Theatre, playing an old man. Before that I had played fat clowns and I thought, 'If I want to have the career I would like, I am going to have to lose weight.' I was just starting drama school, and found I was moving around a lot. I also started to eat sensibly. The weight just dropped off.

  Harry Melling

  Drama, Moving, School

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• It is the meaning of what my life has been since a youth - to try to fight for the dignity and the freedom of my own people.

  Graca Machel

  Fighting, People, Trying

  "Graça Machel on Mandela: 'I learned to separate the man from the myth'" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2013.

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• In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

  Dick Cavett

  Thinking, Remembers Everything, Assuming

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.107, Henry Holt and Company

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• If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.

  Willa Cather

  Heart, Goes On, Matter

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Morning, Silly, Sleep

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.34, 谷月社

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• If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they will have at the sight of each other will be one of complete disappointment at life as a whole; because their thoughts will be carried back to that earlier time when life seemed so fair as it lay spread out before them in the rosy light of dawn, promised so much — and then performed so little.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Disappointment, Light, Sight

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.

  Ja Rule

  Growing Up, Believe, Thinking

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

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• We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible; for this divine book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and all those sober and frugal virtues which constitute the soul of republicanism.

  Benjamin Rush

  Book, Mean, Government

  Benjamin Rush (1988). “Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical”, Union College

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• I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.

  Monte Irvin

  Sports, Baseball, Teacher

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• Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.

  E. W. Howe

  Children, Men, Talking

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• My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Strength, Opportunity, Needs

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• One boy's a boy, two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Boys, Two, Three

  Charles A. Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (2003). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Years, Kind, Painful

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1989). “An anthology”

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• Laughter is taken as a sign of strength, freedom, health, beauty, youth, and happiness.

  Martin Grotjahn

  Laughter, Taken, Health Beauty

  Martin Grotjahn (1966). “Beyond laughter: humor and the subconscious”

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• Avoid trivial pursuits. You are a child of God, destined for glory, and called to do great things in His Name. Do not waste your life on hobbies, sports, and other recreational pursuits. Do not throw away the precious moments of your life on entertainment, movies, and video games. Though some of these things can properly have a 'small place' in the Christian's life, we must be careful not to give undue attention to temporal and fruitless activities. Do not waste your life. Employ the time of your youth in developing the character and skills necessary to be a useful servant of God.

  Paul Washer

  Faith, Sports, Christian

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• Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

  Claude M. Bristol

  Self, Wish, Drink

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude M. Bristol (2015). “Magic of Believing Collection”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? How many a father have I seen A sober man, among his boys Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Father, Boys, Men

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Obiit MDCCCXXXIIi (Entire)”

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• The youth are hurt. Our majority are youth, under 30. They have no hope. They don't get jobs.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Hurt, Jobs, Majority

  "Transcript: NPR's Interview With Afghan President Ashraf Ghani". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 23, 2015.

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• Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians were despised in the late twentieth century. Many of the persons who held such opinions were, of course, guilty of the most nefarious conduct themselves, and yet saw no paradox in holding such views because they were not hypocrites themselves-they took no moral stances and lived by none.

  Neal Stephenson

  Hypocrite, Views, Hypocrisy

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• A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?

  George Eliot

  Girl, Believe, Weather

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola: In Two Volumes”, p.76

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