Quotes About Youth

He agreed with the captain of a New York sloop for my passage, under the notion of my being a young acquaintance of his that had got a naughty girl with child, whose friends would compel me to marry her, and therefore I could not appear or come away publicly.

Youth is pert and positive, Age modest and doubting: So Ears of Corn when young and light, stand bolt upright, but hang their Heads when weighty, full, and ripe.

There was a difference, he said, between individuals years of maturity were not always accompanied with discretion, neither was youth in every instance devoid of it.

He said I appeared a young man of promising parts, and therefore should be encouraged;

that hard-to-be-governed passion of youth hurried me frequently into intrigues with low women that fell in my way,

discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Vom Leben muß man saufen.

Das war alles ein wenig viel für mich heute: Anstatt zu schlafen, eine Feuerleiter hinaufzuklettern, zu saufen, was das Zeug hält, mal eben ein bisschen zu vögeln und nebenbei erwachsen zu werden. Das reicht für eine Nacht. Da würde jeder kotzen, glaube ich.

Hast du manchmal Angst?", fragt er. "Ich meine nicht Angst vor einer Prüfung. Oder dem Erzieher. Sondern so richtig Angst. So Angst vor dem Leben. Weißt du?" Troy schluckt. Er beugt sich nach vorn. "Leben ist Angst haben", sage ich. Mir wird unangenehm. Eigentlich habe ich noch nie darüber nachgedacht. Aber ich glaube, es stimmt.

It's hard to become an adult in the place where you grew up. Because you can never escape who you were.

There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age.

Kurz darauf ging es AUF KLASSENFAHRT ins Sauerland, in die Jugendherberge Burg Bielstein, und alles war genau so grausam, wie es eben auf solchen Fahrten in diesem Alter ist, stinkende Schlafsäle mit Etagenbetten, auf deren Matratzen die Exzessgeschichte der Räume mittels Flecken recht anschaulich kartiert ist, labbrig-bitterer Hagebuttentee aus Metallkannen, Himbeermarmelade aus Eimern, Graubrot mit Gummikäse, entsetzlich marmorierte Wurstscheiben.

De young an old are doing it I have a rappin mudder Everybody has dere rap so let's rap to each other No matter what yu style or de hat dat yu are wearing Yu can even get away wida little swearing, Fuck.

Maybe this all seems like a digression or even a case of protesting too much, but the point is that I have touched a breast and that I liked it.

The moral of the story here is that if you're ever offered anything that seems like it might lead to sex, there is no turning back. You just have to take it as it comes or you will remain a virgin for life.

I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.

It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced by an intelligent delight in scenery, are elements of the first importance in the education of the young.

I did keep detailed journals from about fifth grade on, and every so often as I was growing up, I would re-read them and reflect on the previous years of my life.

We grew up on hip-hop, metal, and hard core, which... reflect a certain amount of the chaos and confusion that are part of daily life.

Kids need to see their world reflected back to them.

I was making the music and writing the songs which reflected the emerging consciousness of my generation.

I wish that I had seen myself more reflected on TV when I was growing up, and I think a lot of people feel that way.