Wild Youth Quotes

#1. I aspire to be
an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild youth.

Atticus Poetry

#2. I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!

Gil Gerard

#3. Who will you be, my Little Ones? Will you dance for the fires of your youth and run at midnight to water's edge, diving into summer's heat? Will you ride a wild mare to any thought or dream or love of your making? Will you seek the artistry of your own infatuations and explore ...

Carew Papritz

#4. Snow was a wreck at dinner.
Which I might have enjoyed if I wasn't so desperate for him to stay.
Everything on his plate seemed to confuse him, and he alternated between staring at his food miserably and vacuuming it up because he was clearly ravenous.

Rainbow Rowell

#5. Pardon all runners,
All speechless, alien winds,
All mad waters.
Pardon their impulses,
Their wild attitudes,
Their young flights, their reticence.
When a message has no clothes on
How can it be spoken.

Thomas Merton

#6. The only good Rook is a working Rook!

Samuel Reshevsky

#7. Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

Magnus Carlsen

#8. A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory.

James Joyce

#9. If you look at payments to labor as a proportion of national income or gross domestic product, you find profits going way up, investment and savings going up.

Michael Hudson

#10. I love boxing. There's something fierce about using your body's force that way.

Sophia Bush

#11. What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.

Henry David Thoreau

#12. Such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.

William Shakespeare

#13. My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I live in English.

Isabel Allende

#14. The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.

Henry James Byron

#15. Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Aaron Hill

#16. I've always liked telling stories. That probably came from my dad, who definitely had the gift of gab and who wove a kind of personal folklore about his youth - stories full of adventure and ghosts and wild antics.

Cullen Bunn

#17. My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did.

Joan Collins

#18. Come back, true love! Sweet youth, return!
But time goes on, and will, unheeding,
Though hands will reach, and eyes will yearn,
And the wild days set true hearts bleeding.

Conrad Aiken

#19. T-H-U-G L-I-F-E. Meaning what society give us as youth, it bites them in the ass when we wild out. Get it?" "Damn.

Angie Thomas

#20. Love is a wild fire that cannot be contained by any mere element known to man.

Cristina Marrero

#21. He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.

Plato

#22. Running in the wind, in the pollen and dust, a flower in flight

Vladimir Nabokov

#23. We must be certain that the repair to the environment is sufficient to allow wild species to recover and survive.

Norm Dicks

#24. Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.

William Shakespeare

#25. She had the wild look of someone who hadn't slept in twenty-four hours, with purplish semicircles underneath both her eyes. Being eighteen was like being made out of rubber and cocaine.

Emma Straub