Youth Quotes
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In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
William Allen White
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I lived like a bear, in a little room, with books for my only friends . . . These were the joys and debaucheries of my youth.
Andrew Roberts
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Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth.
Claudius Claudianus
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Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.
William S. Burroughs
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For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
William Wordsworth
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He wears the rose
Of youth upon him.
William Shakespeare
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I'm convinced, that when you are a footballer you are a symbol. You have to be a superman in some ways, to send messages to people all the time, to the youth all the time.
Emmanuel Petit
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If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
Vincent Van Gogh
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At sixty a man has passed most of the reefs and whirlpools....That man has awakened to a new youth....Ergo, he is young.
George Luks
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I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
William Wordsworth
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A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.
William Shakespeare
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Years go, dreams go, and youth goes too, The world's heart breaks beneath its wars,All things are changed, save in the east,The faithful beauty of the stars.
Sara Teasdale