Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry you don't like coming back here," her mother often said, to cap whatever petty dust-up they'd had. How could Emily… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
It seemed like they had a lot of faith in their youth and there was a clear pathway when you could see… — Bukayo Saka Copy Share Image
“But the rise of rock 'n' roll was nonetheless one of the most shocking cultural phenomena of the mid- and late 1950s,… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The purpose of adolescence is to revise the past, not to obliterate it. . . . Adolescence entails the deployment of family… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“She must change for youth: when she is sated with his body, she will find the error of her choice: she must… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“O youth! The strenght of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it! (...) I think of her with pleasure, with… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I am concerned that my children will grow up sheltered from the public. I am concerned that the children get to experience… — Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway Copy Share Image
I think it's harder for each generation. Even I just feel completely separate from teenagers today who have access to the Internet.… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to understand why the great God of heaven has reserved these special spirits for the final work of… — Vaughn J Featherstone Copy Share Image
We constantly see surveys that reveal this ignorance, especially among our high school students,78 percent of whom, in a recent nationwide multiple-choice… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Now wonder our youth is confused and in pain; they long for God, for the transcendent, and they are offered, far too… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
To my son Hugh, in return for the care and sorrow he has caused me all the days of his life, for… — Hallie Erminie Rives Copy Share Image
Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“The researchers worked with more than three thousand young gamers in total, and in all three studies they reached the same conclusion:… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
I think that when you're young, you carry the weight of the world on your shoulders. You're anxious; the world seems like… — Alesha Dixon Copy Share Image
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“I have watched elders see a young person squirm with impatience, then choose to talk slower and longer. They do this because… — Pamela Slim Copy Share Image
If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the… — Rosalynn Carter Copy Share Image
“There is no instant anything. Overnight success is a lie. That lie is just one of many lies that youth want to… — Mark T. Sneed Copy Share Image
“An acquaintance working at a youth correctional facility told me some of the imprisoned boys cheered as they watched television coverage of… — Sue Klebold Copy Share Image
Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself;… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
One important thing I take away daily is that for all the talk about what youth are not doing - especially young… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
Africa's youth are probably one of its greatest resources. There's a tendency to see youth, for example as a problem. But for… — Linda Thomas-Greenfield Copy Share Image
You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you've tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
I used to play a lot of foreign women in my youth because I was prettier then. I would go for interviews,… — Kate O'Mara Copy Share Image
It's naive of adults to believe that young people aren't aware of what is going on in the world. The best thing… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When you reach a certain age, and people see you on television, they look at you and think, 'Wow! Everything must be… — Larry King Copy Share Image
“But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
When I was 11 years old, I was playing for the Lierse youth team, and one of the parents from the other… — Romelu Lukaku Copy Share Image
“[Alyosha] was to some extent a youth of our last epoch — that is, honest in nature, desiring the truth, seeking for… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or… — Plato Copy Share Image
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