Promise Of Youth Quotes

#1. You have blighted the promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness!

Anne Bronte

#2. She was the promise of youth, of being fearless ... of being alive. She was everything I couldn't have and shouldn't want, but the more she taunted me, the more my resolve crumbled.

Ella Frank

#3. This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#4. The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.

John F. Kennedy

#5. Perhaps no promise in life is more reassuring than that promise of divine assistance and spiritual guidance in times of need. It is a gift freely given from heaven, a gift that we need from our earliest youth through the very latest days of our lives.

Howard W. Hunter

#6. I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library is open, unending, free.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#7. Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

Nicholas Sparks

#8. Harvard Square could feel like a party on a warm night, full of energy and privilege and promise. Or it could seem like one of the bleakest places on earth
an icy, windswept rat maze where kids wasted their youth clawing over one another in a fatuous contest for credentials.

Geraldine Brooks

#9. When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by his youth and energy and promise and were especially hopeful that he might move the country in a new direction on civil rights.

Marian Wright Edelman

#10. One of the greatest virtues of gardening is this perpetual renewal of youth and spring, of promise of flower and fruit that can always be read in the open book of the garden, by those with an eye to see, and a mind to understand.

Edward Augustus Bowles

#11. Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed
Confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued,
And cries reproachful: Was it then my praise,
And not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth;
I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.

James Russell Lowell

#12. Software development is neither a scientific nor an engineering task. It is an act of reality construction that is political and artistic.

David West

#13. Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, - attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

Samuel Johnson

#14. Say what you will, dear sister, we do what we do for the promise of our youth. Yet it is always they who scar beneath the points of daggers.

Chris Galford

#15. For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.

John Sweeney

#16. A very scurvy fellow.

William Shakespeare

#17. I knew the second I met you that you'd save my life someday.

John Corey Whaley

#18. Like John Kennedy in 1960, Obama combines youth, vigor, and good looks with the promise of political change. Like Kennedy, he grew up in unusual circumstances that distance him from ordinary American life.

Virginia Postrel

#19. Live for who and what you love.

Zayn Malik

#20. Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.

Dante Alighieri

#21. Where I'd like to see more women is at the executive table.

Cynthia Carroll

#22. I write really well on the road.

Pam Houston

#23. I think that scripts should be published, but they are published, really, because when you're a screenwriter, your stuff ends up in samizdat form on thousands and thousands of desks and shelves across the industry.

William Monahan

#24. Youth is about promise.

Don Lee

#25. The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures.

Tony Blair

#26. Though the world is becoming more wicked, the youth of Christ's Church can become more righteous if they understand who they are, understand the blessings available, and understand the promises God has made to those who are righteous, who believe, who endure.

David B. Haight

#27. Cosmetics makers have always sold 'hope in a jar' - creams and potions that promise youth, beauty, sex appeal, and even love for the women who use them.

Virginia Postrel

#28. There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.

Ezra Pound

#29. For youth, the moon is a promise of all those tremendous things which await it, for older people a memento that the promise was never kept, a reminder of all that broke and went to pieces ...
And what is moonshine? Secondhand sunshine. Diluted, counterfeit.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#30. The point of the mission trip is to invite young people to act in ways that witness to the promise of God's action, which will make all things new.

Andrew Root

#31. Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.

Michelle Obama

#32. As in all other places of resort, one type predominated: people in the prime of youth, with every show of intelligence and sensibility in their appearance, but with little promise of strength or the quality that makes success.

Robert Louis Stevenson