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“You're like a cake when you're young. You can't rush it or it will fall, or just turn out wrong. Rising takes patience, and heat.”

Young Turns Fall Youth Heat Rising Cake

Book:Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life

Source: Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life

“All solitary enjoyments, quickly fall, or become painful, so that, perhaps, no more insufferable misery can be conceived than that which must follow incommunicable privileges. Only imagine a human being condemned to perpetual youth while all around him decay and die. O, how sincerely would he call upon death for deliverance!”

Humans Dies Fall Human Beings Imagine Youth Misery Privilege Painful Enjoyment Perpetual Solitary Decay Sincerely Deliverance Insufferable

Author:James Sharp

“There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about, and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.”

Ifs Men Mind May Persons Sometimes Feelings Young Fall Known Youth Succeed Down And Casts Young Man Injury Injured

Book:The Complete Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Complete Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

“Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and his sister's friends can't or won't. But the youth who marries her, expecting that all her departures from convention will be as agile or as delightful to him as that, is still the classic example of folly.”

Knows Men Stills Young Fall Girl Marriage Example Youth Falling In Love Young Man Classic Kicks Folly Hats Conventions Expecting Delightful Departure Chorus Conventionality Hats Off

Book:Modes and Morals

Source: Modes and Morals

“Emotional intelligence in the work that we do, in the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program, is about equipping young people with the kinds of skills they need to both identify and manage their emotions, to communicate those emotions effectively, and to resolve conflict nonviolently. So it's a whole set of skills and competencies that, for us, fall under the umbrella of emotional intelligence.”

“Kipling, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, reveals the tin-pot evangelist with increasing clarity as youth and its ribaldries pass away and he falls back upon his fundamentals.”

Fall Youth Fundamentals Clarity Pot Preacher Passing Away Fall Back Tin Evangelists Grandson Methodists Kipling

Book:A book of prefaces

Source: A book of prefaces

“Music and time have such an interesting relationship. Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from another moment of your life and it really is like you're still there. That's why the music of our youth ends up being particularly powerful. The coming of age music that you grab a hold of as the symbol or the expression of your independence and hopes for the future and anger and rebellion or whatever it is you're feeling is so powerful for the rest of your life when you hear it.”

Stills Ends Moments Feelings Age Song Fall Interesting Powerful Youth Expression Like You Independence Symbols Rebellion Coming Of Age Rest Of Your Life Making Time Hope For The Future

Author:Jennifer Egan

“Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”

“Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.”

May Government Fall Youth Institutions Eagles

Book:History of the United States, from the discovery of the amarican continent

Source: History of the United States, from the discovery of the amarican continent

“Five-hundred years ago people were saying in manuscripts, "Can you believe these kids today?" They were saying that same phrase everyone says now. No one can believe the youth and what they're doing and how culture is going and how it might fall apart.”

People Years Believe Might Kids Today Fall Culture Five Youth Hundred Years Ago Phrases Falling Apart Manuscripts

Author:Joel McHale

“The great news is that overwhelmingly far more than adults, youth already care about the environment. Young people are recognizing that we have largely made a mess of things with respect to the environment [and] that the burden to fix it will fall on them.”

People Made Care Young Fall Environment Youth News Adults Burden Mess Recognizing Great News

Author:Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

“With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.”

Men Might Fall Five Youth Fool Limits Falling In Love Extremes Thirty

Book:The Moon and Sixpence

Source: The Moon and Sixpence

“Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.”

Source: Professor At The Breakfast Table