Y Quotes
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“Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.”
“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.”
“Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.”
Source: The Miller of Old Church
“Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.”
Source: Summaries of Thought
“Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.”
“Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.”
Source: Collected Writings
“Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“Youth is the spirit of play
with the forces of ominosity.
Youth is the conquest of death
into the daring pastures of duty.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Youth is the spring-time of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we know.”
“Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.”
“Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.”
Source: A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet
“Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.”
Source: A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet
“Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.”
“Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.”
Source: The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays
“Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.”
Source: The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays
“Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.”
“Youth is the time when hearts are large, And stirring wars Appeal to the spirit which appeals in turn To the blade it draws.”
Source: Selected Poems (Melville, Herman)
“Youth is the time when hearts are large.”
Source: Selected Poems of Herman Melville
“Youth is the trustee of prosperity.”
“Youth is the ultimate limited resource.”
Source: The Ashes of Eden
“Youth is thy gift, - the youth that baffles Time.”
Source: The Poems and Sonnets of Louise Chandler Moulton ...
“Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.”
Source: Carlyle's Works ...
“Youth is to wander! Adult is to act! Age is to assimilate the beauty of thoughts.”
“Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.”
“Youth is very
Cruel to an old face,
He said in a hushed voice.
It looks into its lines for wisdom
So touchingly
But there is nothing there to find.”
Source: Gilgamesh
“Youth is wasted on the wrong people.”
Source: "It's a Wonderful Life" the screenplay
“Youth is wasted on the young.”
“Youth is when you think you'll live forever. Old age is when you wonder how you've lived so long.”
“Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.”
“Youth is wholly experimental.”
Source: Across the Plains
“Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart.”
“Youth isn’t worn.
It’s borrowed—and always reclaimed.”
Source: WOLF SUIT: A Dark Supernatural Noir — Book 1
“Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“Youth knows no remedy for grief but death.”
Source: Pavements at Anderby: tales of
“Youth Liberation has argued for some time that young people should have the right to have sex as well as not to have it, and with whom they choose. The statutory structure of the sex laws has been identified as oppressive and insulting to young people. A range of sexual activities are legally defined as molestation, regardless of the quality of the relationship or the amount of consent involved.”
“Youth lives in an atmosphere of energy waiting to make contact.”
“Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.”
Source: Poems 2
“youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.”
“Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Youth loves honor and victory more than money.”
Source: Selected Works
“Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit.”
“Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.”
“Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.”
“Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men.”
“Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“Youth ministry is not about getting things accomplished - only the act of God can bring about the transformation we seek. Youth ministry is about participating deeply in young people's lives as we await, together in suffering & joy, the coming of God.”
Source: Unlocking Mission and Eschatology in Youth Ministry
“Youth Ministry, as traditionally organized, has also suffered the impact of social changes. Young people often fail to find responses to their concerns, needs, problems and hurts in the usual structures. As adults, we find it hard to listen patiently to them, to appreciate their concerns, demands, and to speak to them in a language they can understand.”
Source: The Joy of the Gospel
“Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.”
Source: Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser
“Youth. Murder (Biko). Slavery. Freedom. We are all creatures of ignorance at the end of the day. The natural order of the hierarchy of life states that we are creatures. Creatures of habit whether it is normal (following the status quo and all of that jazz). Creatures of marching orders and almost sanitary routine. Creatures of the abnormal. Our leaders are coldly obliterating the past. It is impossible to destroy nations, tribes, individuals without their permission. Many lessons learned from the past come to life like the connect the dots game of a child in a museum. We are swift to forget history. Bury the past like yesterday’s newspaper, our infirm and elderly in nursing homes.”