1,743 Quotes About Youth
- Author F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life.
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- Author William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson; David Kraft; George Perez [Illustrator]
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The seeds of the Little War were planted in a restless summer during the mid-1960s, with sit-ins and student demonstrations as youth tested its strength. By the early 1970s over 75 percent of the people living on Earth were under 21 years of age. The population continued to climb—and with it the youth percentage.In the 1980s the figure was 79.7 percent.In the 1990s, 82.4 percent.In the year 2000—critical mass.
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- Author Tina Fey
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Lots of teenage girls have taken comfort under the wings of half-closeted gay boys.
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- Author Julie Reece Deaver
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and while he did all the actual dancing, I remember whirling around and around the porch those hot summer days so long ago and never wanting to stop.
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- Author Clifford Cohen
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Indiscretion is weighted heavily towards youth; inaction is weighted heavily towards old age.
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- Author Nick Hornby
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Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at twenty-six; we were of that disposition
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- Author Lydia Millet
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Helplessness was the one true fountain of youth.
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- Author Dr Paul Gitwaza
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Spiritual maturity is not measured by the years that you have spent in church, rather by your attitude before people different from you.
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- Author Caroline Kepnes
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we’re too old to be young.
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