“At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.” WorldGivingWellsHeartEnoughLastsSpiritFeltEducationPovertyBloodYouthCollegeBrokenWallArmsHighestPaidHungerDisappointmentFedsSweatCentsCrushedCleanlinessLaundryFeesGive And TakeTuitionWell DressedFrigidUnderpaid Author:Anzia Yezierska
“Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.” PeopleYearsMindAgeHappinessYouthMetsBlessingHighestOld AgeDoomedToilEnviedRugged Author:Samuel Richardson
“Adolescence and early youth...the fires are burning fastest, right? And your energy level is highest. It demands...and rock is screaming type music.” EnergyLevelsFireRocksYouthTypeDemandHighestBurningAdolescenceEnergy Levels Author:Jim Morrison
“My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.” WarCountryNationsEnemyStruggleYouthHighestRuinsAshesReconstruction Author:Lech Walesa