1,743 Quotes About Youth
- Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Well, sir, it is precisely my notion that one sees and learns most of all by observing our younger generations.
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- Author Pamela Eglinski
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If you aren't living on the edge you're taking up too much room. Anon.
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- Author A.E. Housman
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Westward on the high-hilled plainsWhere for me the world began, Still, I think, in newer veinsFrets the changeless blood of man....There, when hueless is the westAnd the darkness hushes wide,Where the lad lies down to restStands the troubled dream beside.There, on thoughts that once were mine,Day looks down the eastern steep,And the youth at morning shineMakes the vow he will not keep.
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- Author Ian McDonald
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We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up.
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- Author J.M. Barrie
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He did not alarm her, for she thought she had seen him before in the faces of many women who have no children. Perhaps he is to be found in the faces of some mothers also.
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- Author F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The grass is full of ghosts tonight.' 'The whole campus is alive with them.' They paused by Little and watched the moon rise, to make silver of the slate roof of Dodd and blue the rustling trees. 'You know,' whispered Tom, 'what we feel now is the sense of all the gorgeous youth that has rioted through here in two hundred years.
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- Author Alberto Moravia
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- Ты не можешь понять, что значит для женщины больше не быть молодой... это хуже смерти!(Мать - Марчелло Клеричи)
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- Author F. Scott Fitzgerald
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He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up all the romance that her age and environment led her to desire
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- Author Don DeLillo
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People get bitten. But I won't.' I found myself saying, 'You will, you will. These snakes don't know you find death inconceivable. They don't know you're young and strong and you think death applies to everyone but you. They will bite you and you will die.
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