Boy and girl Quote by William Blake

“What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts.”

— Oscar Wilde

Youth is life's beautiful moment.

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thinking back to boyhood days, I remember the bright sun on Harlem streets, the easy rhythms of black and brown bodies, the sounds of…

— Walter Dean Myers

...and our footsteps rang and echoed till it sounded like the room was full of dancers, the house calling up all the people who…

— Tana French

The voice so filled with nostalgia that you could almost see the memories floating through the blue smoke, memories not only of music and…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

“Joy is the fountain of youth.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

“I stood in my garden as the rain poured down, eyes closed, and when I opened them I thought to myself how I'd never…

— Sarah Brownlee

“Thank you! …for sharing your childhood with me so I could experience the all joys that were missing in mine”

— Ginny Toole

“Embedded in their psyche was the story of what had happened to the world, and the boys felt glorious to be on the other…

— Pernell Plath Meier

“Youth so apt for pleasure that pleasure, one thought, must exist”

— Virginia Woolf

“Their constant outward-looking, their mania for radios, cars, and a thousand other trinkets made them dream and fix their eyes upon the trash of…

— Richard Wright