Youth Quotes
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I was so poor for so long that I didn't use anything. I didn't drive cars, I didn't eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I've been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven't caught up with my youth.
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Youth lives in an atmosphere of energy waiting to make contact.
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Contradictions, most of all, a balance between chaos and order. It needs neighborhoods vibrating with energy just as much as cozy little corners and parks; well-tended, middle-class sections as well as an alternative scene; technology centers for innovative youth and social facilities for older people.
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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.
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If youth only knew, if age only could.
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Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.
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One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow growth and even demand it in that time of life we call maturity but too often enter it with a childish faith that what we learned in youth is sustenance enough for the years when most men are mentally famished but won't admit it—or when they are apt to curb their hunger with the sops of complacency, security, and the assurance of death.
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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
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Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.
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The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.
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Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for —W. S. Merwin
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Improper parental example in the home is a leading cause of the wandering of youth.
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At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.
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There's a feeling of immortality you have in youth. You just don't see the dangers around you, or, if you do, maybe you're even excited by them.
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In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
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Enjoy your youth. You'll never be younger than you are at this very moment.
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I feel like we've had a front row seat for the last 20 years to watching culture and youth.
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There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.
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The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids.
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Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.
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Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years.
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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 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.
