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Youth Quotes by Maya Angelou
- It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
- Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine…
- Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.
- When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain…
- Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted…
More Youth Quotes
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
- Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming… — Jane Austen
- The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. — Richard Bach
- Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and… — Francis Bacon
- Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than… — Francis Bacon
- For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially… — Honore de Balzac
- If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and… — Honore de Balzac