Ripen your mind to the glorious history of the ages and revel in your mastery as today's youth shall look upon you as a sage.

my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know.

For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.

Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.

I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.

There is a very prevalent tenet with youth, that good company is every thing desirable, and that bad is even better than none.

To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.

Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.

Whatever my situation is, I want to show that I'm not perfect, and perfect isn't real. The youth need to know that, especially.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works.

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.

The young are just as opinionated as the old, but have more exciting things to do than sit around airing their opinions all day.

Could beauty be beaten out, O youth the cities have sent to strike at each other's strength, it is you who have kept her alight.

Hold high the brow serene, O youth, where now you stand; Let the bright sheen Of your grace be seen, Fair hope of my fatherland!

Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is certainly not devoid of intelligence; it sees through shams with sharp and terrible eyes.

If you're pursuing something that you love and you're learning something new, every day, that's the key to youth [staying young].

Youth is so exciting. It'll take over. I don't want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the end.

The media, of course, loves to make claims about the fountain of youth. Don't believe it. No one has it. But we're getting close.

Youth should have access to paid internships or jobs year-round, so they can keep developing important skills and earning income.

To reap this demographic dividend, we need to enable the youth to acquire skills required to get the job or become self-employed.

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.

It must be an industrious youth that provides against age; and he that fools away the one must either beg or starve in the other.

My mum came from nothing and didn't have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that.

To me, the pinnacle of my career is writing for youth. I can die happy: I have succeeded in doing what I have always wanted to do.

It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures.

Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

And though the years before I die Stretch out interminably, I Shall only count my life in truth As that brief hour of happy youth.

Team Obama continues to dominate new media, spending far more effort and money than Team Romney in targeted online youth outreach.

If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false

There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

I applaud President Obama for launching his 'My Brother's Keeper' initiative that is aimed to empower our youth to achieve success.

Sonic Youth could never really get it together acoustically - quite frankly, it wasn't something we were really that interested in.

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

People don't see hunger in front of them so they are not directly affected. What I am doing is connecting young people to the issue

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

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