Quotes about Youth

We are going to help the young talented athletes become world champions.

Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.

I'd like to be taller. I'd like my baby fat to leave.

I wasn't the tallest kid when I was little.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

If those also of the younger sort would ask of themselves, why God should not have the flower and marrow of their age? And why they should give their strength to the devil?

So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

THE PASTURE I'm going out to clean the pasture spring; I'll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water clear, I may): I sha'n't be gone long. — You come too. I'm going out to fetch the little calf That's standing by the mother. It's so young, It totters when she licks it with her tongue. I sha'n't be gone long. — You come too.

This saying good-by on the edge of the dark And the cold to an orchard so young in the bark Reminds me of all that can happen...

Girls, sometimes I feel as if those exams mean everything, but when I look at the big buds swelling on those chestnut trees and the misty blue air at the end of the streets they don't seem half so important.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.