Quotes Tagged "youth"

Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

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

Only the young die good.

I am constantly amazed when I talk to young people to learn how much they know about sex and how little about soap.

The joy of the young is to disobey - but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

To keep clear of concealment, to keep clear of the need of concealment, to do nothing that he might not do out on the middle of Boston Common at noonday -I cannot say how more and more that seems to me to be the glory of a young man's life. It is an awful hour when the first necessity of hiding anything comes. The whole life is different thenceforth. When there are questions to be feared and eyes to be avoided and subjects that must not be touched, then the bloom of life is gone. Put off that day as long as possible. Put if off forever if you can.

Youth has become a class.

The 'teenager' seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backward while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance its allotted length.

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

One boy's a boy, two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all.

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.

The interests of childhood and youth are the interests of mankind.

The youth gets together this material to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance, a palace or temple on earth, and at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own.

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.