Quotes about Youth
All of us were mischievous at some time or another, I more so than any of the rest. [My brother] Philbert and I kept a battle going. ... Even in our fighting, there was a feeling of brotherly union.
- Malcolm X
That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
- Alice Hoffman
This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood.
- Anne Frank
I have a lot of time for young people.
- Desmond Tutu
When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.
- Thomas Jefferson
The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next.
- Thomas Jefferson
For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.
- Margaret Atwood
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
- Mark Twain
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
- Mark Twain
So endeth this chronicle. It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much further without becoming the history of a man.
- Mark Twain
In another moment he was flying down the street with his pail and a tingling rear, Tom was whitewashing with vigor, and Aunt Polly was retiring from the field with a slipper in her hand and triumph in her eye.
- Mark Twain
You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.
- Mark Twain