Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we...

Beauty is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight,or springtime, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. You have only a few years in which...

We debate sometimes what is to be the future of this nation when we think that in a few years public affairs may be in the hands of the fin-de-siecle gilded youths we see about...

The silence of the storm weighs heavilyOn their strained spirits: sometimes one will saySome trivial thing as though to ward awayMysterious powers, that imminently lieIn wait, with the strong exorcising graceOf everyday’s futility. DesireBecomes upon...

Who will you be, my Little Ones? Will you dance for the fires of your youth and run at midnight to water’s edge, diving into summer’s heat? Will you ride a wild mare to any...

The young people think that the old people are fools; but the old people know that the young people are fools!

The truth was that I didn’t know my own mind. Just as you might move into a house and in the scatterbrained days of unpacking leave a broom in some corner, where it remains until...

It was obvious from their expressions that they believed the wellbeing of R.’s inhabitants was endangered by my youth. The visit was very enjoyable, but the horror of the previous night still clung to me.

I haven’t been very impressed lately.By people,or places,or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.

So you will meet many ’someones’ who will give a new definition to your name. And you can not build walls, must not close the door and please don’t hide,because if you ask me about...

I don’t know what the old you was like, but the new you, the older you than the old you, is new and fresh.

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that’s now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

The stars glittered in the sky and as the number of people at the party grew there were merging conversations and laughter and bodies moving in outlines around the kegs of beer in a curtsy...

I think youth always helps you. Youth always has its advantages.

Women always want to look younger, and I always want to look older, so I could look like Pliny the Younger. As a lover, that would give me the best of both worlds.

I think that time might be different for young people. The minutes longer, stronger, more vibrant.

In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player.

To impatient youth, all things took for ever and any kind of waiting was torture. Pg. 221

Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it’s too late.

[Self] Perception is directly proportional to performance. Change a youth’s perception, and you change their performance, their future… and their life.

Aging offers certain rewards that youth cannot. It represents the culmination of our efforts in building self-knowledge, families, friendships, careers, and the sense of self that comes from facing whatever adversity we may have encountered....

My teacher’s mind and my interest in youth has brought me to some renewed conclusions, and I pass them on earnestly to mature persons who are given to assisting young people off the trail. The...

The city had seemed grand to him once … it had once had a certain clarity. When you’re young you think it’s the clarity that’s intoxicating; later you realize you were only ever drunk on...

The idea that foreign preachers who don’t speak English are radicalizing British youth who speak nothing but English is absurd.

As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions!

A need for many candles may arise in every nation’s history to light up the darkness in the country. Most of the time, the youth is the very candles themselves!

The thing about the old is that we never change so much as the young. We slip in degrees, adding rings like trees–a new wrinkle here, a shade less color there, but the young transform...

The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted.

When Douglas walked, his mind ran, when he ran, his mind walked.

Mrs Guinea answered my letter and invited me to lunch at her home. That was where I saw my first finger-bowl.The water had a few cherry blossoms floating in it, and I thought it must...

In war, our elders may give the orders…but it is the young who have to fight.

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...

Don’t worry if you fall, sweet girl. Youth is made for bruises.

With every breath, I breathe in so much of inspiration. I feel if there is one thing as free and as important as oxygen, it’s inspiration.

The truth is, Socrates, that these regrets, and also the complaints about relations, are to be attributed to the same cause, which is not old age, but men’s characters and tempers; for he who is...

Westward on the high-hilled plainsWhere for me the world began, Still, I think, in newer veinsFrets the changeless blood of man….There, when hueless is the westAnd the darkness hushes wide,Where the lad lies down to...

As Buckingham talked, I couldn’t help but remember that there’s a reason they call us Gallagher Girls. It’s not just because the youngest of us are twelve. It’s also because our founder was under twenty....

youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Early youth is a baffling time. The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting...

Yo creo que se puede establecer una división entre la juventud y la madurez. La juventud acaba cuando termina el egoísmo; la madurez se inicia cuando se vive para los demás.

I’m learning persistence and the closing of doors, the way the seasons come and go as I keep walking on these roads, back and forth, to find myself in new time zones, new arms with...

Woman” in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.

They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them.

When a mere girl, my mother offered me a dollar if I would read the Bible through; . . . . despairing of reconciling many of its absurd statements with even my childish philosophy, ....

Ho sempre pensato che fino ai diciotto anni, niente importi», disse Mary. «È vero», concordò Abe. «E dopo è uguale».

My mom said I was a handful. Now I’m helpful.

But for a long time, and probably far too long, I had a secret wish: the adolescently romantic idea that there was someone out there for me; someone I hadn’t met yet who would ask...

If life and youth were not immune to the corrosive effects of time, why should love be any different?

The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.