Youth Quotes

To help our youth abide by the principles involved in temple marriage, we must help them to understand that temple marriage is more than just a place where the ceremony occurs; it is a whole orientation to life and marriage and home. It is a culmination of building attitudes toward the Church, chastity, and about our personal relationship with God--and many other things. Thus, simply preaching temple marriage is not enough. Our family home evenings, seminaries, institutes, and auxiliaries must build toward this goal, not by exhortation alone but by showing that the beliefs and attitudes involved in temple marriage are those which can bring the kind of life here and in eternity that most humans really want for themselves (The Teachings of Harold B. Lee, p. 244).

~ Harold B. Lee

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.

~ Don Delillo

We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow

~ William Shakespeare

We'll squeeze every second that we can from our lives, because we're young, and we have plenty of years to grow. We'll grow until we're braver. We'll grow until our bones ache and our skin wrinkles and our hair goes white, and until our hearts decide, at last, that it's time to stop.

~ Lauren Destefano

So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

The Three of them were beautiful, in the way all girls of that age are beautiful. It can't be helped, that sort of beauty, nor can it be conserved; it's a freshness, a plumpness of the cells, that's unearned and temporary, and that nothing can replicate. None of them was satisfied with it, however; already they were making attempts to alter themselves into some impossible, imaginary mould, plucking and pencilling away at their faces. I didn't blame them, having done the same once myself.

~ Margaret Atwood

Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that...

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkness - the old illusion that truth and beauty were in some way entwined.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

~ Evelyn Waugh

One of the few things my father says when he's had a few that I agree with is that kids don't have much balls in this generation. Some of them are trying to start the revolution by bombing U.S. government washrooms, but none of them are throwing Molotov cocktails at the Pentagon.

~ Stephen King

It was a strange business and it made a sad and curious impression on me; everything that had belonged to me in these earlier years of my life left me, was alien and lost to me. I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of these years were discarded like badly fitting clothes. I parted from them without pain and all that remained was to wonder that I could have endured them so long.

~ Hermann Hesse

To love and be loved, that is the miracle of youth

~ Victor Hugo

I damned myself for my earlier romanticism. That Croaker who had come north, so thoroughly bemused by the mysterious Lady, was another man. A stripling, filled with the foolish ignorances of youth. Yeah. Sometimes you lie to yourself just to keep going.

~ Glen Cook

She blinked, sat up, and saw Chris in the bathroom doorway. He'd just gotten out the shower. His hair was damp, and he was dressed only in his briefs. The sight of his thin, boyish body - all ribs and elbows and knees - pulled at her heart, for he looked so innocent and vulnerable. He was so small adn fragile that she wondered how she could ever protect him, and renewed fear rose in her.

~ Dean Koontz

Youth is a terrible thing: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and fancy costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but only half understand

~ Milan Kundera

Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà!

~ Rita Mae Brown

So now we are young still but a better sort of young.

~ Penelope Lively

Tyler rolls out of bed, sniffs the armpits of yesterday's T-shirt, tosses it aside, gets another out of the drawer. His dad sometimes asks him why he sets his alarm so early -- it's summer vacation, after all -- and Tyler can't seem to make him understand that every day is important, especially those filled with warmth and sunlight and no particular responsibilities. It's as if there's some little voice deep inside him, warning him not to waste a minute, not a single one, because time is short.

~ Stephen King

such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.

~ William Shakespeare

...I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17...

~ John Geddes

The dreams of youth. So noble. So good. And heavy dreamsthey were- made frail only by their own weight.

~ James Michael Pratt

People beleived that the most devastating part of a war are the corpses with their guts out in the open, the puddles of blood, and all that you can capture at first glance. But sometimes the horror is off to the side, in the lost look on the face of a woman who's just been raped, as she limps away alone within the ruins, trying to keep her head down. Gerda and Capa were not aware of this yet. They were too young. And that was their first conflict. They still believed war had its romantic side.

~ Susana Fortes

If one keeps on adapting, their contribution will be limited. Theycan only imitate but never create.

~ Ravindra Shukla

Not pretty exactly, but gleaming with the loveliness of youth.

~ Juliet Blackwell

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is just a little bit extra.

~ Kent Healy

There are two powers in this world which cannot be matched. Beauty and Youth. Buy the beauty and imprison the youth. Give the best models, actress, and girls from town and nail them. I do not care how much it costs.

~ Ravindra Shukla

Lust is the best of all the deadly sins.

~ Colleen Hoover

Now that lilacs are in bloomShe has a bowl of lilacs in her roomAnd twists one in her fingers while she talks.Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not knowWhat life is, you who hold it in your hands; (slowly twisting the lilac stalks)You let it flow from you, you let it flow,And youth is cruel, and has no remorseAnd smiles at situations which it cannot see.I smile, of course,And go on drinking tea.

~ T.s. Eliot

While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover their vocations and responsibilities, and not merely cram their minds with facts and technical knowledge; it should be the soil in which they can grow without fear, happily and integrally.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

‎She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.

~ J.m. Barrie

The sun, like a golden knife, was steadily paring away the edge of the shade beside the walls.The streets were enclosed between old, whitewashed walls. Everywhere were peace and stillness, as though all the elements were obeying the sacred law of calm and silence imposed by the blazing heat. It seemed as though mystery was everywhere and my lungs hardly dared to inhale the air.

~ Sadegh Hedayat

O youth! The strenght of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it! (...) I think of her with pleasure, with affection, with regret - as you would think of some one dead you have loved. I shall never forget her.... Pass the bottle.

~ Joseph Conrad

Oh, those warm days of stumbling words; blinded eyes, embracing in sweet slow dances and sipping courage from a bottle for sneaking kisses.

~ Kellie Elmore

She was dry, dry inside like a ten-thousand-year-old tomb, with the last of her life barely dampening the dirt underneath.

~ Kat Rosenfield

Each night when she prepared for bed she smeared her face with some new unguent which she hoped illogically would give back the glow and freshness to her vanishing beauty.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness.

~ Len Deighton

Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now than when young, know now there is so much more to know than you knew there was to know when young that it is moot whether you think you knew more then than now or less, or do you now know that you never knew anything at all and never will and only the bluster of youth persuaded you that you did or would?

~ Padgett Powell

Yeah, I am crazy. Ok. May be I am. But I prefer to be crazy than being a dummy.

~ Ravindra Shukla

Beauty lies in one’s heart and sex lies in one mind. It all depends on where your belief lies.

~ Ravindra Shukla

Orsino: For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won,Than women's are. ...For women are as roses, whose fair flow'rBeing once display'd doth fall that very hour.Viola: And so they are; alas, that they are so!To die, even when they to perfection grow!

~ William Shakespeare