Quotes about Youth
I met a lady in the meadsFull beautiful, a faery's child;Her hair was long, her foot was light,And her eyes were wild.
— John Keats
The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.
— Elizabeth George
The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I'll never graduate from collagen.
— Dolly Parton
I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.
— Jimmy Carter
'Rebecca' by Daphne du Maurier was the first grown-up book I read, when I was aged about 12.
— Mary Nightingale
Young people across the country have grown up traumatized by the gun violence epidemic.
— Wayne Messam
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
— George Bernard Shaw
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
— George Bernard Shaw
There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
— George Eliot
Young ladies don't understand political economy, you know," said Mr. Brooke
— George Eliot
Fred at six years old thought her the nicest girl in the world, making her his wife with a brass ring which he had cut from an umbrella.
— George Eliot