Quotes About Youth

As Pierre Manent described it, the city is anything but a family or community. "In reality, it subordinates the family and the group.… It takes young men from their families living, and brings them back dead.

I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

So I simply don't buy the concept of "Generation X" as the "lost generation." I see too many good kids out there, kids who are ready and willing to do the right thing, just as Jack was. Their distractions are greater, though. There's no more simple life with simple choices for the young.

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.

I suppose nowadays it's all a question of surgery, isn't it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and a child forever, and I think you can. I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.

The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they're stupid.

The problem is that everyday treats teenagers like they're stupid.

I used to know Jennifer Love Hewitt. We lived in the same apartment building when I was about... jeez, I guess it was when I was doing 'Christmas Vacation', so I was about 13 or 14.

The days of wine and rosesLaugh and run awayLike a child at playThrough a meadow landToward a closing doorA door marked "Nevermore"That wasn't there before

There's no future in England's dreamingNo future, no future, no future for youNo future, no future, no future for me

The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.

Organic Broccoli is the fountain of youth vegetable - Johnny Wowk AKA Johnny The Walker

I feel like I am a real artist and I want to be able to feel what I am singing about. So when I sing, 'Leave (Get Out) ' I have been through that. I think it is just a new generation, whether people are ready for it or not. Teenagers are dating.

I was good at keeping secrets from my parents (it's one of the things we learn while growing up, after all).

The hardest thing about talking to teenagers, I had discovered, was that whatever you said inevitably came across like something an elderly aunt would say at a wedding.

Teenagers are basically toddlers with hormones—old enough to want to do stuff without having any of the common sense.

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

She is probably slightly too old to pout, but they've been going out a short enough time for it still to be cute.

The young are right to be fearless, she reminded herself. Remember yourself at that age.

Cand oamenii pe care ii iubim mor tineri este ca si cum am primi un semnal care ne aminteste ca nimic nu este garantat, ca aveam datoria sa profitam la maximum de ceea ce avem. Am sentimentul ca, in sfarsit, am inteles asta.

and the look she gave me was far too wise for her age and utterly heartbreaking.

The problem with getting older was not so much that one got stuck on the past, Vivi often thought, but that there was so much more of the past to get lost in.

It's nineties music. Olden-days stuff!" she said cheerfully, and I tried not to think too hard about the fact that I was, in her eyes, basically geriatric.