I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.

He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

I spent a lot of my youth working outside in the elements, and I kind of revel in defeating tough weather.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.

I was too young to take it all in. I was too young to even realize I was young. I was just living my life.

The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training.

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.

What I know about street outreach is that it is essential to dealing with the issue of youth homelessness.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and its free to everyone.

I have a human services bachelors degree and I want to work social work, I want to work with at-risk youth.

I started acting when I got a summer job at the Everyman Theater Company with the Neighborhood Youth Corps.

Everyday that passes I am pulled from youth as how it has been defined by that culture into something else.

What an exciting age it is we live in With all this talk about the hope of youth And nothing made of youth.

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.

I have the courage of youth, and I'm not afraid of anything. My only enemies are illegality and corruption.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

I don't think there is enough youth employment or enough push for youths to kind of do want they want to do.

The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.

Our demographic dividend is our strength. The youth have what it takes to engage with the latest technology.

Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

I spent my youth reading books in which corporations became governments, it's an old idea in science fiction.

Acting aggressively will allow our youth to aspire for better-paid jobs and find alternatives to criminality.

I love talking to the youth and helping them as much as I can or encouraging them, if I can help them at all.

The National Youth Theatre did one very simple but incredible thing for me: it made me realise I had choices.

What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.

I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.

Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?

Satan knows that youth is the springtime of life when all things are new and young people are most vulnerable.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.

I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me.

Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit.

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.

Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.

Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again.

[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.

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