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Browsing Quotes With Tag: youth (5)

  • When we are young, we want simple answers. There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be “as it should,” “as it has ever been.”

    Source: the Way of Kings
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 19 Jan 2014 at 12:02 PM
    Posted By: Puck
  • When you’re a teenager and you’re in love, it’s obvious to everyone but you and the person you’re in love with.

    Speaker: John Scalzi
    Source: Old Man's War
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 15 Nov 2013 at 9:46 AM
    Posted By: Puck
  • Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness’

    Source: "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz"
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 25 Feb 2012 at 12:18 PM
    Posted By: MayaQueen
    Tags: youth
  • No-one of any sense has ever bet against the scorn and resourcefulness of young men

    Speaker: Tycho
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 19 Feb 2010 at 8:55 AM
    Posted By: Puck
    Tags: piracy, youth
    Shared By: 3 members; sdressfancy, oursojeri, Puck
  • These are life’s delights. These momentary, happy pairings are a deep response to life and nature, a summons to warmth and light. There must once have been a good fairy who ordered the fields and trees expressly for young hearts, and thanks to her we have the eternal ecole buisonniere, that school for lovers under the sky that will endure as long as there are trees and novices.
    ...The lawyer’s clerk becomes a god. The cries and chasings in the grass, the clasped waist, the murmur of half-spoken words that are a song of rapture, the cherry passed from mouth to mouth, these like a flame rising and sinking are the heaven of life. Girls sweetly give themselves and believe that it will last forever. Philosophers, poets, and painters contemplate these ecstasies and cannot encompass them, so dazzled are they.

    Speaker: Victor Hugo
    Source: Les Miserables
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:57 PM
    Posted By: Puck
    Tags: love, youth
    Shared By: 2 members; sdressfancy, Puck