Quotes on youth

“Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.”

“Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.”

“He was waving. Saukerl, she laughed, and as she held up her hand, she knew completely that he was simultaneously calling her a Saumensch. I think that's as close to love as eleven-year-olds can get.”

“My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.”

“Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.”

“Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah”

“I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss”

“A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement”

“Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.Good things come to those who wait.”

“V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.”

“The beauty of collaboration between older and younger generations is that we combine strength with wisdom—a surefire way to accomplish more for the glory of God.”

“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.”

“To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.”

“There's nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth.”

“what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.”

“Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.”

“I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.”

“[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers[novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we're good with our mouths too...(~ IM chat with Novan Chang, 18, bassist)”

“She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.”

“The legacy of a generation is written by the boldness of its youth.”

“When the wisdom of the old meets the energy of the young, society achieves true equilibrium of growth, progress, and stability.”

“Together, in that room, our childhood notions of love melted away. We discovered love was not a fairytale. Sometimes there were no happy endings, and when there were, you needed to work like hell to keep the happiness alive.”

“I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.”

“I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?”

“My heart spread rainbow in the roomlike colours of youth andlilts of life's melodies.”

“I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.”

“What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.What are brief? today and tomorrow.What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.What are deep? the ocean and truth.”

Youth is wasted on the young.

Youth is wasted on the young.

The most important advice I give to young people is just learn how to get stuff done.

I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth.

When you were young, and your heart was an open book, you used to say, live and let live.

When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, ‘Give crowns and pounds and guineas but not your heart away.'

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth.

A society that does not care for its youth is a society that does not care for its future.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light... I just want to be pure.

Someday, I want to learn how to do that with a switchblade knife.

He works with the kids that show up looking for help, and keeps them motivated and challenged.

When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away; Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day.