Quotes About Youth

In this wealthy, technologically advanced, highly educated nation, more and more of our darkest children are dying on the streets--literally. Still, this uncontested reality polarizes adults along racial lines, not as we attempt to discover meaningful solutions to these brutal slaughters but in our racially balkanized expression of beliefs and determinations regarding the cause of these senseless deaths.

These young men always moved in a pack, or never without two or three. They needed the others continually near to verify their existence.

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

Come on, who saw what happened? I did, I volenteered. Well? Buttwipe wanted to know what jerkface was looking at. I turned turned eyes on the bloody and dirt-smeared brawlers. You were barely 3-inches apart. Couldn't you see that you were both looking at each other? The teacher's face reddened. Who do you think you are? Jerry Seinfeld? You must be confused with another student, I told him. My name is Capricorn Anderson.

Hamilton dabbed a tissue at the cut under his eye. Except for the time I met the Great Khali, that was the coolest thing I've ever done! The foursome, only slightly the worse for wear, stood on the tarmac of the small airfield outside Milan, transferring their luggage from the limo to Jonah's jet for the flight back to Florence. You didn't do anything, yo, Jonah seethed. It was done to all of us by the freak show with the nerve to complain that the family branches are too violent!

What did Romeo and Juliet do?" They died," I remind her gently. "Some mix-up with the poison-

You know how eighth graders are anti-everything? Well, sixth graders are the opposite of that. They're super gung ho, since being in middle school is still a big deal for them. Give them a year—they'll wise up.

We're not criminals. We're regular kids, like everybody else. Still, you probably don't want to mess with us . . . just to be on the safe side.

My father is considered the smartest man in the world. But when it comes to the unplugged life, I'm the brains of the family.

Our whole lives we were stuck in a town the size of a postage stamp

You children have created quite a stir in the hunt. Why? asked Amy. We've outsmarted a few people, but I don't think we're winning. She paused. Are we? Perhaps not, but you're younger than the rest of us, with fewer resources, no branch to support you, and almost zero knowledge of our family history. Many predicted you wouldn't last a week. Yet here you are, right in the thick of things.

GORDON KORMAN wrote his first book at age fourteen

He felt old at eleven. Amy

My students are very motivated, he finished in a disappointed tone. Kids these days, Dan commiserated.

Another of my crimes against humanity, like bullying her brother, and not dying when I fell off the roof.

We do not want to old to be sharper than we. It is bad enough that they were there first, and got the best things.

Most young men, particularly attractive ones, have sexual relations with their own kind. I suppose this is news to those who believe in the two teams: straight, which is good and unalterable; queer, which is bad and unalterable unless it proves to be only a Preference, which must then, somehow, be reversed, if necessary by force.

Dr. Bogart was about to tell me more when William de la Touche Clancey sat down next to me with an insolent crash (do I resemble a country youth because I am small?)

As we rounded a small pavilion, we nearly stepped into a pair of figures — who leapt apart. One was William de la Touche Clancey. The other was a well-made boy of perhaps sixteen, carefully got up to resemble a swell; only the red blunt hands betrayed the fact that he was a workie. So! Clancey gave his accusing goose-like hiss. The boy looked embarrassed, as well he should. There are some things that the poor ought not to do even for money.

I realized then that I didn't have to have women all the time, and that guilt is the weapon used by a muddled society to stop people having a good time. 'All the world loves a lover.' What crap! Even in the sexually liberated 'seventies young people still had to get pissed or high to do what they really wanted to do in the first place.

For writers it is always said that the first twenty years of life contain the whole of experience – the rest is observation

It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn't the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn't we have committed our first major sin at seven, have ruined ourselves for love or hate at ten, have clutched at redemption on a fifteen-year-old deathbed?

I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him, in a way, once, but I've forgotten why, and I was too young to know what I was choosing.

She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.