Quotes about youth

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.

— Heinrich Suso

Youth should be a savings bank.

— Anne Sophie Swetchine

Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight

— Ishikawa Takuboku

Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

— Mark Twain

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

— Samuel Ullman

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

— Source Unknown

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

— Source Unknown

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

— Source Unknown

Youth has become a class.

— Roger Vadim

Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.

— H. V. Wade

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

— Evelyn Waugh

There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

— Elwyn Brooks White

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

— Walt Whitman

Those whom the gods love grow young.

— Oscar Wilde

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

— Oscar Wilde

Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.

— Oscar Wilde

Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

— Carey Williams

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

— Woodrow T. Wilson

Young people need models, not critics...

— John Wooden

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light

— Robert Baden Powell

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

— Margaret Atwood

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

— Arthur Rimbaud