Quotes about Youth

For the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.

Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.

I thought he was a young man of promise; but it appears he was a young man of promises.

Television has changed a child from an irresistible force to an immovable object.

Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

A truly special teacher is very wise, and sees tomorrow in every child's eyes.

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.

A lotta years I was out there on the road pulling one-nighters. Then I got hired to sing in Sam Donahue's band in 1963. I was 19 years old.

In spring, Granny would send me off to pick bluets, violets, and windflowers. As the weeks passed, she'd ask for yellow lady's slippers and bleeding hearts, then roses and white rhododendron clusters that grew along the stream. She'd always seem to know the day when the mayflies danced and died. When I'd come back from whatever venture she'd sent me on, she'd talk about how life was precious.

Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.

Crime was up, especially among the youth; simple, common trust in one's neighbor was diminishing; never had the town been so full of rumors, scandals, and malicious gossip. In the shadow of fear and suspicion, life here was gradually losing its joy and simplicity, and no one seemed to know why or how.

Frank Herbert warned young people not to trust government, telling them that the American founding fathers had understood this and had attempted to establish safeguards in the Constitution.