Quotes About Youth

Perhaps kids really did come into the world trailing clouds of glory, as Wordsworth had so confidently proclaimed, but they also shit in their pants until they learned better.

Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you. Now eat your pie.

Elizabeth's doze had deepened into real sleep. Once she might have been young and beautiful. Once she might have been some young man's dream baby. Now she was snoring with her mostly toothless mouth pointed at the ceiling. If there's a God, I think He needs to try a little harder.

When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank.

Danny strolled to the town common, sat on one of the benches in Teenytown and took one of the bottles out of the bag, looking down on it like Hamlet with Yorick's skull

I always wondered about growing up. I bet it's mostly lies.

McVries seemed not to have heard. These things, they don't even bear the weight of conversation, he said, J.D. Salinger...John Knowles...even James Kirkwood and that guy Don Bredes...they've destroyed being an adolescent, Garraty. If you're a sixteen-year-boy, you can't discuss the pains of adolescent love with any decency anymore. You just come off sounding like fucking Ron Howard with a hardon. McVries laughed a little hysterically.

They say bachelors have all the fun. Not so. You just get old and full of sand, nasty.

One of the few things my father says when he's had a few that I agree with is that kids don't have much balls in this generation. Some of them are trying to start the revolution by bombing U.S. government washrooms, but none of them are throwing Molotov cocktails at the Pentagon.

The little ones are the only good human beings.

We're toasting the chlorophyll rising in our bodies, catching the energy from the universe. Nobody's ever been young like we are right at this moment.

And then I noticed the dandelions.

Age doesn't mean Maturity but Senescence

I was born at a very young age

As the ocean tugged me at my feet, i realized that Early Auden, that strangest of boys, had saved me from being swept away.

There are miracles and glory in every child. Our glory lies in empowering them to flourish their glory.

Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?"Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an au

Life is like this roller coaster you can't wait to be tall enough and old enough to get on. But when you get on it you realize you're afraid of roller coasters.

It is shallow desires which make a young man bold

Capture your youth, while you can.

These were formative years for me, and many of these experiences have had a profound effect on my life.

All those practice fights when it was just us, two children pretending to be soldiers. Or two soldiers pretending to be children.

A face whose emotions had not yet been battered by experience.

Don't be too busy growing old that you forget to grow up.