Youth Quotes - Page 7

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

  Jean Cocteau

  Accepting, Certain, Rejects

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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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• Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Eras, Consideration, Dues

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• Youth is no excuse for sloppiness.

  Lisa Gardner

  Sloppiness, No Excuses, Excuse

  Lisa Gardner (2004). “The Perfect Husband: An FBI Profiler Novel”, p.29, Bantam

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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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• A youth with wings are the assurance of our nation's future. We must start to work right away and make progress so that; if one day Westerners leave their footprints on the moon, we shall place a Turkish one among those.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Moon, Wings, Progress

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• Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Inspirational, Laughter, Teenage

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• O happy childhood! blessed youth! But once we know thy potent power; But once we live all careless free; No cross to mar our love-lit bower.

  Pablo Neruda

  Blessed, Childhood, Mars

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• Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

  Francis Bacon

  Retirement, Wine, Old Friends

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1859). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works”, p.139

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• A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Secret, Age And Youth

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.180, Courier Corporation

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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.

  Paul H. Dunn

  Self Confidence, Wrinkles, Inspirational Birthday

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• Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Character, Age, Aging

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

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• 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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• Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, Sarcastic, Retirement

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• That age is best which is the first
  When youth and blood are warmer.

  Robert Herrick

  Spring, Blood, Age

  Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.87

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• The joy of the young is to disobey

  Jean Cocteau

  Joy, Young

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• There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

  E. B. White

  Dream, Men, Support

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.99, Cornell University Press

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• What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine

  Thomas More

  Friendship, Flower, Wine

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• The more we increase the active participation and partnership with young people, the better we serve them. ... And the more comprehensively we work with them as service partners, the more we increase our public value to the entire community.

  Maria del Carmen Martinez-Bordiu y Franco

  People, Community, Partnership

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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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• An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Writing, Generations, Literature

  Letter to Booksellers' Convention, Apr. 1920

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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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• 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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