youth

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination. A man may feel as old as his years yet as young as his dreams.

'The Company You Keep' is about outgrowing not just the delusions that accompany youth but the harsh certainties driving our lives and then trapping them before the years outpace the velocity of our dreams.

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for his authority.

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.

As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways. Think about it - most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama's 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values - hope and change.

Now that I'm 50 and respectably settled in New England and markedly happier and more contented than I was in my youth, I modestly hope there's time to realize some of my youthful goals before I croak, but I'll take what I can get.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

I was entirely natural and in many ways I have the same attitude now. I don't mourn the loss of my youth because I believe you should enjoy what you have while you have it.

Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

The youth is the hope of our future.

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

Live as long as you may the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.