Quotes about Youth
Father, help these young people to see. Help them to show the world that our greatness is not in things we do for ourselves, but in things we do for others. In power that channels itself into kindness, in a hand outstretched in love. Be with these determined students. Help them to believe, when the naysayers come, that you make all things possible. "'And,
- Lisa Wingate
Nothing takes you from thirty years old to thirteen faster than your mother's voice rebounding up the stairs like a tennis ball after a forehand slice.
- Lisa Wingate
the choral group. I have even begun to master the organ, not so different from Monsieur's piano. I strained to hear the whisper, as Sister Agnes went on with her thought. "The audiences prefer children who are young, too young to be out working for themselves. It pleases them to feel as though they're donating to
- Lisa Wingate
I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.
- Jennifer Lopez
I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
- Henry David Thoreau
You can live to be old or young, but you'll always have moments when you lose your head.
- Vincent Van Gogh
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
- Vincent Van Gogh
For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
- Charles Dickens
Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.
- Toni Morrison
My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.
- Charles Dickens
According to Barna surveys, 61 percent of today's youth had been churched at one point during their teen years but are now spiritually disengaged.
- Philip Yancey
The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.
- John F. Kennedy