#youth

Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community. ↗

— Ed Smith

#assistance #black #community #doing #during

If youth knew; if age could. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#could #knew #youth

I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old. ↗

— Charles Sumner

#i #known #man #never #old

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

#black #civilization #engaged #immigrant #in the past

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#cannot #care #cure #follies #i

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood. ↗

— Ruben Hinojosa

#adulthood #disadvantaged #force #house #one-quarter

Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope. ↗

— Gayla Reid

#hope #life #life-experience #memories #old

Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young. ↗

— Glenway Wescott

#life #luck #youth #age

The rich old men start the wars, but it’s the poor young men who portend them. If they didn't get old and rich, some excuse might have to be found to launch invasions. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #old-age #poverty #war #wealth

My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you? ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#chaos #wisdom #youth #age