Youth Quotes - page 9

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness. (George Santayana)
Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth? View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
Making the future and the road to the future wealth lies in the youth of the present and future, and rebuilding the nation's institutions based on knowledgeable scientific foundations that require promising human capacities derived from college graduates. Universities are the makers of men, we are proud of their role and of the efforts of their administrators. View quote
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. View quote
David Mamet
The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one. View quote
Cormac McCarthy
I try to catch at many a tune Like petals of light fallen from the moon, Broken and bright on a dark lagoon,But they float away - for who can hold Youth, or perfume or the moon's gold? View quote
Sara Teasdale
Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it. View quote
Johan Huizinga
In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent collapse of the whole edifice of civilization had made an appointment. View quote
Guy Debord
I hold in my heart that rebellious spirit of youth that demands change. View quote
Dennis Kucinich
We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on. View quote
Louis Riel
Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man. (Jon Anderson)
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine. View quote
Thomas Moore
Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown. Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth. And Melancholy marked him for her own. View quote
Thomas Gray
Forgetfulness, the unhistorical, is ... the atmosphere, in which alone life can come into being. In order to understand it, let us imagine a youth who is seized with a passion for a woman, or a man who is swayed by a passion for his work. In both cases what lies behind them has ceased to exist and yet this state (the most unhistorical that can be imagined) is that in which every action, every great deed is conceived and accomplished. View quote
Georg Brandes
An Idle youth, a needy Age. View quote
George Herbert
In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth. View quote
China Miéville
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts. View quote
Booker T. Washington
Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth. View quote
John Buchan
Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth. (Richard Steele)
A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies. View quote
John Cheever
Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them? View quote
Charles Kingsley
Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go. View quote
Siegfried Sassoon