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Youth

«We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.»
Author: Mary McLeod Bethune (Educator) | About: Potential, Youth | Keywords: In Out, practices
«What I regret about the follies of youth is not having committed them but not being able to do so again.»
Author: Pierre Benoit (Novelist) | About: Youth
«To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them»
Author: Richard Henry Lee | About: Liberty, Youth | Keywords: Body of, preserve
«What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?»
Author: Evelyn Waugh | About: Youth | Keywords: fit to
«Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don't want to fritter away the new lease on life I've been given.»
«We pay when old for the excesses of youth.»
«We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.»
Author: Louis Armstrong | About: Youth | Keywords: entrepreneurial
«Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'»
«Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.»
«To me it seems that youth is like spring, an over-praised season delightful if it happens to be a favored one, but in practice very rarely favored and more remarkable, as a general rule, for biting east winds than genial breezes»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Youth | Keywords: biting, breezes, genial, in practice