Quotes tagged ‘Youth’

“Simmons: I'm sorry for being so young. BJ: That's all right, you'll grow out of it.”

— Mitch Markowitz, B. J. Hunnicutt, Mike Farrell, imdb.com

“It's hard to tell someone so young that things don't always end up the way you thought they'd be.”

— Lena Dunham, Murray Miller, Ray Ploshansky, Alex Karpovsky, imdb.com

“When I was much younger, I should probably have enjoyed the innocent gayeties of life, as much as most of my age.”

— Martha Washington, amazon.com

“I begin with the young. We older ones are used up but my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at all these men and boys! What material! With you and I, we can make a new world.”

— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com

“It was only natural that the hardships of his youth should enhance his subsequent achievement in his eyes, particularly since it resulted exclusively from his own energy and iron diligence. It was the pride of the self-made man which made him want his son to rise to the same position in life, or, of…”

— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com

“From early youth I endeavored to read books in the right way and I was fortunate in having a good memory and intelligence to assist me.”

— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com

“I am firmly convinced to-day that, generally speaking, it is in youth that men lay the essential groundwork of their creative thought, wherever that creative thought exists. I make a distinction between the wisdom of age—which can only arise from the greater profundity and foresight that are based o…”

— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com

“Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.”

— Bret Easton Ellis, amazon.com

“Books make up no small part of human happiness.”

— Frederick the Great, bartleby.com

“Sometimes you hug someone and you can just feel too much weight in their chest for a 14-year-old. You’re like, I see you. I get what’s going on.”

— Troye Sivan, nytimes.com

“Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“One of the comforts of having children is knowing one's youth has not fled, but merely been passed down to a new generation. They say when a parent dies, a child feels his own mortality. But when a child dies, it's immortality that a parent loses.”

— James Wong, Tim Minear, Constance Langdon, Jessica Lange, imdb.com

“I wanted to mark my beauty, my youth, because I was confused about death and permanence, because I could not imagine getting uglier or older or sadder or wiser.”

— Rachel Jepsen, thecut.com

“In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares.”

— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org

“My dad says it over and over, 'Today's the youngest you're ever going to be. You've got to live like it. You've got to live young every day.' And that's what I try to do.”

— Mark Cuban, businessinsider.com

“Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.”

— Deng Xiaoping, amazon.com

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”

— George Washington Carver, goodreads.com

“We live in a sick, youth-obsessed culture. Five-year-old vagina is the gold standard.”

— Zander Lehmann, imdb.com

“In America, you see, you die twice—once when you grow old, and once when you actually die.”

— Karan Mahajan, amazon.com

“As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.”

— Jim Henson, goodreads.com