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“Youth must be the worst time in anybody's life. Everything's happening for the first time, which means that sorrow, then, lasts forever. Later, you can see that there was something very beautiful in it. That's because you ain't got to go through it no more.”
“Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams
“Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.”
“Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates... Instead, they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service, should learn to think and act as a mass.”
“Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service. The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible.”
“Youth need coaches, not critics.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Youth need guidance, direction, and proper restraint...Parents, too, have a responsibility in this training not to provoke children to wrath. They should be considerate not to irritate by vexatious commands or place unreasonable blame. Whenever possible they should give encouragement rather than remonstrance or reproof.”
“Youth need less critics and more models.”
“Youth now flees on feathered foot.”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
“Youth of the Church, the world is in need of your help. There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save. The harvest truly is great. Let there be no mistake about it; the missionary opportunity of a lifetime is yours.”
“Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.”
“Youth passes like a dream.”
“Youth's energy, science's vitality, and compassionate AI can shape a society for a better world where equity, prosperity, and peace prevail.”
Source: Ethical AI Systems: Frameworks, Principles, and Advanced Practices
“Youth's lost companion may be the measured friend of old age, I hope", said Daniel. "I may write a poem on the subject."
"Dear God, it sounds more like a cross-stitched pillow than a poem," said Hugh.”
Source: The Summer Before the War
“Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.”
Source: Edwin Arlington Robinson
“Youth should be a savings bank.”
“Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.”
Source: Politics
“Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.”
“Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on. But the old orders should not be moved easily - certainly not at the mere whim or behest of youth. There must be clash and if youth hasn't enough force or fervor to produce the clash the world grows stale and stagnant and sour in decay.”
“Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals!”
“Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.”
“Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.”
Source: Dramatic works
“Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.”
“Youth so apt for pleasure that pleasure, one thought, must exist”
Source: The Waves
“Youth soccer is big business. If I don't win, it doesn't matter if I'm developing players, my business is going to hell.”
“Youth take responsibility for your own spiritual well being”
“Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.”
Source: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
“Youth was insidious. Taken for granted. Dismissed. It was scorned by those who had it, and those fortunate enough to live through it craved its return.”
“Youth was so mercilessly hard in its decisions; it had its own unyielding standards and had not yet learned enough to know that time would prove them arbitrary.”
Source: Jeremy Poldark: a novel of Cornwall, 1790-1791
“Youth was the time for happiness, its only season; young people, leading a lazy, carefree life, partially occupied by scarcely absorbing studies, were able to devote themselves unlimitedly to the liberated exultation of their bodies. They could play, dance, love, and multiply their pleasures. They could leave a party, in the early hours of the morning, in the company of sexual partners they had chosen, and contemplate the dreary line of employees going to work. They were the salt of the earth, and everything was given to them, everything was permitted for them, everything was possible. Later on, having started a family, having entered the adult world, they would be introduced to worry, work, responsibility, and the difficulties of existence; they would have to pay taxes, submit themselves to administrative formalities while ceaselessly bearing witness--powerless and shame-filled--to the irreversible degradation of their own bodies, which would be slow at first, then increasingly rapid; above all, they would have to look after children, mortal enemies, in their own homes, they would have to pamper them, feed them, worry about their illnesses, provide the means for their education and their pleasure, and unlike in the world of animals, this would last not just for a season, they would remain slaves of their offspring always, the time of joy was well and truly over for them, they would have to continue to suffer until the end, in pain and with increasing health problems, until they were no longer good for anything and were definitively thrown into the rubbish heap, cumbersome and useless. In return, their children would not be at all grateful, on the contrary their efforts, however strenuous, would never be considered enough, they would, until the bitter end, be considered guilty because of the simple fact of being parents. From this sad life, marked by shame, all joy would be pitilessly banished. When they wanted to draw near to young people's bodies, they would be chased away, rejected, ridiculed, insulted, and, more and more often nowadays, imprisoned. The physical bodies of young people, the only desirable possession the world has ever produced, were reserved for the exclusive use of the young, and the fate of the old was to work and to suffer. This was the true meaning of solidarity between generations; it was a pure and simple holocaust of each generation in favor of the one that replaced it, a cruel, prolonged holocaust that brought with it no consolation, no comfort, nor any material or emotional compensation.”
Source: The Possibility of an Island
“Youth who have been exposed to immoral images at a very early age are terrified that they may have already disqualified themselves for missionary service and sacred covenants. ... I want to assure you young people [that] through repentance you can qualify for all the blessings of heaven. That is what the Savior’s Atonement is all about.”
“Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.”
“Youth without beauty always has attraction; beauty without youth has none.”
Source: The World as Will and Representation, Volume I , Books III-IV
“Youth without beauty is half a prize.”
“Youth without faith is a day without sun.”
Source: Chandos: A Novel
“Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.”
“Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experience of riper years. Were it possible for it to realize the worth of time, as life's receding hours reveal it, how rapidly would it press on towards perfection!”
“Youth yearns to youth, full blood loves full blood only.”
“Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber”
Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis
“Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.”
Source: The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings
“Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow
“Youth's the season made for joys, Love is then our duty.”
“Youth, ah, Youth! all men's desire and sorrow.”
“Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?”
Source: Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather's Uncollected Short Fiction, 1915-1929
“youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity.”
Source: Romance and Reality
“Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.”
“Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them.”
“Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.”
Source: Les miserables
“Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.”
Source: Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems
“Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.”
Source: A Long Fatal Love Chase