Quotes in this theme
Youth
E.M. Forster
Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.
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Sarah Teasdale
When I can look Life in the eyes, / Grown calm and very coldly wise, / Life will have given me the Truth, / And taken in exchange—my youth.
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George W. Bush
My grandkids say, 'Reality Bites.' O.K., but it also challenges and rewards...I believe our best days are yet to come.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God’s sakegive me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
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Robertson Davies
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Is it not possible that middle age can be looked upon as a period of second flowering, second growth, even a kind of second adolescence?
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Ambrose Bierce
Zeal, n . A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Youth wrenches the scepter from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.
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W. Somerset Maugham
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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Samuel Johnson
So different are the colors of life as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past . . . that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
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Helen Keller
It is not possible for civilization to flow backward while there is youth in the world.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theater before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.
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G. K. Chesterton
The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry.
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Samuel Butler
Youth is like spring, an overpraised season— delightful if it happen to be a favored one, but in practice very rarely favored and more remarkable, as a general rule, for biting east winds than genial breezes.
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