Quotes About The Promise Of Youth

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

John F. Kennedy

#4. 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

#5. Never live life in fear of death

Zayn Malik

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.

B.F. Skinner

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Everything is About To Change.

Chris Mentillo

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

Nicholas Sparks

#14. 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

#15. No one needs a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses.

Graham Joyce

#16. 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

#17. We hope we have it contained. So far, it looks as though Afton, Wyoming, and Cedar City and Kanab in Utah are the only hot spots.

Marc Cameron

#18. Youth is about promise.

Don Lee

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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