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“You know what I think? I think that if a young woman doesn't engage in the act of occasionally wishing on a star or a flower or a birthday cake full of candles, then we're forfeiting one of the sweetest whimsies of our youth.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Young Wish Stars Youth Flower Cake Candle Young Women Sweetest Birthday Cake Whimsy

Author:Robin Jones Gunn

“The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.”

Mind Heart Book Young Youth Students Prose Hiding Desks Bent Dreamland Prowling Young Students

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile.”

“The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.”

Thinking Children Enough Funny Young Asks Answers Youth Trust Initiative Old People Elders

Author:Margaret Mead

“Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.”

People Care Young Found Youth Students College Materials Drama Excuse Boredom Brutal Avoided College Students

Book:BONOUR TRISTESSE

Source: BONOUR TRISTESSE

“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.”

Source: The Goddess Abides: A Novel

“Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.”

“Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but only half understand. And history is terrible because it so often ends up a playground for the immature; a playground for the young Nero, a playground for the young Bonaparte, a playground for the easily roused mobs of children whose simulated passions and simplistic poses suddenly metamorphose into a catastrophically real reality.”

Believe Children Real Ends Reality Young Passion Half Stage Youth Terrible Speech Variety Costumes Immature Playgrounds Nero Bonaparte

Author:Milan Kundera

“He was only twenty-five.He was young enough to miss his youth just as it was slipping away. The worst kind of loss-the one that is happening as you feel it.”

Feels Kind Enough Young Loss Five Worst Missing Youth Happenings Twenties Twenty Five Slipping Slipping Away

Book:Thin Skin

Source: Thin Skin

“Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.”

People Young Life Is Growing Conditions Youth Sweet Permanent Teenage Intoxication Nicomachean Ethics Teenage Life Youth Life Life Is Sweet

Author:Aristotle

“He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.”

Men Age Young Youth

Book:The Prime Minister (Unabridged): Parliamentary Novel from the prolific English novelist, known for The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, The Last Chronicle of Barset, Can You Forgive Her? and Phineas Finn

Source: The Prime Minister (Unabridged): Parliamentary Novel from the prolific English novelist, known for The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, The Last Chronicle of Barset, Can You Forgive Her? and Phineas Finn

“He's one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but won't, possibly can't, think in terms of an actual job; who seems to imagine that youth and brains and willingness will simply summon an occupation, the precise and perfect nature of which will reveal itself in its own time.”

People Thinking Want Art Seems Jobs Young Certain Term Perfect Brain Imagine Youth Smart Willingness Occupation Imagine That Precise Deliberation

Book:By Nightfall: A Novel

Source: By Nightfall: A Novel

“The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection.”

Knows Moments Beautiful Young Youth Privilege Pauses Introspection Continuity

Book:The Secret Sharer and Other Stories

Source: The Secret Sharer and Other Stories

“Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.”

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“I sighed; as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.”

May Young Youth Sarcasm Comforting

Book:Double Dexter: Dexter Morgan (6)

Source: Double Dexter: Dexter Morgan (6)

“It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.”

May Different Age Past Young Differences Youth Strikes

Author:Julian Barnes