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“Live as long as you may the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.”
“She bid me take love easy as the leaves grow on the tree But I being young and foolish with her would not agree.”
“Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.”
“I was entirely natural and in many ways I have the same attitude now. I don't mourn the loss of my youth because I believe you should enjoy what you have while you have it.”
“I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.”
“'The Company You Keep' is about outgrowing not just the delusions that accompany youth but the harsh certainties driving our lives and then trapping them before the years outpace the velocity of ou...”
“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
“It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.”
“He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.”
“Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?”
“You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.”
“O youth! youth! you go your way heedless, uncaring – as if you owned all the treasures of the world; even grief elates you, even sorrow sits well upon your brow. You are self-confident and insolent...”
“Zizi was young and often confused about how to live his life, and when he made a choice he clung to it with fierce resolve, as if to beat his uncertainty into submission.”
“Youth lasts much longer than young people think.”
“Youth is gone -- gone -- and will never come back: can't help it.”
“No man knows he is young while he is young.”
“But I recall the springtime of the world as though it were yesterday—those days when we rode together to battle, and those nights when we shook the stars loose from the fresh-painted skies!”
“I won't fatten them in cages, though. I won't ply them with poisoned fruit items. I won't change them into clockwork images or talking shadows. I won't drain out their life's blood. They can do all...”
“Fools – in other words most people – imagine that it would be a wonderful achievement to be able to recover our youth; but those who know life are aware how little it would profit us. ("A Woman's V...”
“If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.”
