#youth

The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract. ↗

— Peter Hall

#france #new #want #youth

These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable. ↗

— Winifred Holtby

#again #built #ceased #death #fortress

I won't fatten them in cages, though. I won't ply them with poisoned fruit items. I won't change them into clockwork images or talking shadows. I won't drain out their life's blood. They can do all those things for themselves. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#change

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students. ↗

— Felix Bloch

#able #achieve #agree #am #before

Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America. ↗

— Felix Bloch

#academic #also #america #consider #debt

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#i #lost #middle #middle age #mourning

I'm currently working on a Mind Siege for youth. ↗

— Tim LaHaye

#i #mind #siege #working #youth

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness. ↗

— James Broughton

#begin #end #find #gladness #i

The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten. ↗

— James Buchan

#economic #events #forgotten #getting #getting older

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#beyond #delights #going #grasp #known