Life Quote by Colum McCann

“Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?”

— Friedrich von Schiller

“Somewhere along the line, between the idealisms of youth and the realities of adulthood, we become pacified by our jobs; we tolerate how we…

— Richard Beckham II

“Let every youth take a leaf out of my book and make it a point to account for everything that comes into and goes…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are…

— L.M. Montgomery

“The world is to the young.”

— Joseph Conrad

“Youth is a kind of madness. The wisest young men are they who follow the good example of the old, and the most foolish…

— John Wortabet

“The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellence, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of…

— William Stolzenburg

“What is necessary, he explains, is an understanding that the youth are not the Other. It is being able to see your humanity reflected…

— John Hubner

“Silly youth and presumptuous senility: the world remains the same as always...”

— Jeff Ampolini

“There was something in his face that made one trust him at once. All the candour of youth was there, as well as youth's…

— Oscar Wilde

“It became my mission to work with young people to help show them the way, not save them! But help them understand that there…

— Jose A. Aviles