1,743 Quotes About Youth

They envy your youth. You two are like exotic creatures from the land of the young.’I’ve never understood all that these-are-the-best-years-of-your-life crap. If this is as good as it gets then I might as well quit now. Let me get to the shimmery oasis of adulthood.

Tolerance cannot seduce the young.

But then I was young, and to be young means to undertake to demolish the world and to have the gall to wish to erect a new and better one in its place.

Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection instead. She had the nearsightedness of youth. She reasoned that because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she signified, and to whom, was not clear yet...She was, after all, on her way to Shiz because she was smart. But there was more than one way to be smart.

You need to have really wasted your life to envy the young for being young.

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.

During childhood life is like dancing and later life becomes wrestling.

Who knew the troubles you have when you're young are only a taste of what's to come?