Youth Quotes

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

John Milton

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. (Elwyn Brooks) White

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Lamentations 3:27

Bible

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. Ecclesiastes 11:9

Bible

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.

Neil Gaiman

One does silly things when one is twelve.

Cassandra Clare

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

Eric Hoffer

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Eric Hoffer

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

Joseph Conrad

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

William Makepeace Thackeray

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

Arthur Rimbaud

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Arthur Rimbaud

Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight

Ishikawa Takuboku

In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Midge Decter

for what after all is Youth and Beauty?

Jane Austen

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Young people need models, not critics...

John Wooden

Now, on the road to freedom, I was pausing for a moment near Temuco and could hear the voice of the water that had taught me to sing.

Pablo Neruda