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American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. (Quote by - Marshall McLuhan)

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth. (Quote by - J. K. Rowling)

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want. (Quote by - Moliere)

In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.' (Quote by - Heinrich Suso)

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity. (Quote by - Christian Nevell Bovee)

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth. (Quote by - Isaac Barrow)

Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day. (Quote by - Dame Mary Gilmore)

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. (Quote by - Dave Barry)

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other? to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life. (Quote by - John Bradshaw)

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. (Quote by - Frank A Clark)

Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope. (Quote by - Aristotle)

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth. (Quote by - Sara Teasdale)

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] (Quote by - Bible)

Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds. (Quote by - Wallace Stevens)

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers, but its nectar never warmed my weary heart. (Quote by - Jon English)

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. (Quote by - Pope Paul VI)

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. (Quote by - Grit)

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person. (Quote by - Horace)

Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him. (Quote by - Baudouin I)

There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)

When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too. (Quote by - Kenneth Rexroth)

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