It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.
Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight
Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.
No man knows he is young while he is young.
On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. [Ecclesiastes 11:9]
Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
The American ideal is youth –handsome, empty youth.
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.
The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.
The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.
The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
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