Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus

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This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
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Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.
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Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
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Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.
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I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.
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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
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It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!
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Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.
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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
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What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.
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Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
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I'm incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn't want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I'd never experienced it.
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The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice.
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A woman who was not afraid to die was not afraid of anything.
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But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus