Quotes About Youth

Unfortunately, the impact of sexually explicit media content can also be damaging.

Rarely do page-turners written for middle-school kids also ignite excitement in adults. (A notable exception is the series of Harry Potter books.) Fewer still explore the secret sorrows of children's lives in the mid-1800s, whether enslaved or free. Running Out of Night, a debut novel from Californian Sharon Lovejoy, a veteran author-illustrator known nationally for her prizewinning nonfiction books on gardening and nature, gives you both.–OpEd News

Very different from other middle grade of YA stories I've read about slaves running during the 1800s. – Wandering Librarian

I believe in the goodness of people, sir, and the power of young folks like us to overcome what grown-ups like you might not be able to. ?Sylvia Patterson

It's hard to imagine you and Daddy as ever being young and foolish. I figured you just appeared one day, fully grown and knowing all the answers," she teased.

Donovan Beaudry rolled his window down; ear-splittingly loud rap music exploded from the truck's custom-installed sound gear. The SUV rolled on twenty-four-inch dubs and sported a shiny set of Sprewells that Justin knew cost around $2,000 a set. The hubcaps continued to spin even after the car came to a stop. He didn't even want to think about how Donovan could have paid for all that.

At school Rose whispered with me about the trip, just like I'd seen other kids do when they have secrets. I felt like a real girl.

In the old photo, we are sitting, my sister upright, like a falls—her bridalveil spine, the ferro plumbline of her hair—and I, I hunched over, tongue sticking out, jaws working like a pair of kindergarten scissors.

it was never in doubt that you had suffered more than I when young.

and some young men loved them the way one would want, oneself, to be loved.

The last thing she needed was to fall for someone again. Before the move from Denver, she'd had her first serious boyfriend. Millicent had gone along on every one of their dates, suddenly determined to play chaperone. Uncle Pat's decision to move came just as the relationship was heating up Tara sagged. Why bother falling for another guy? It would hurt too much when Uncle Pat pulled up stakes again. My life sucks, she thought.

I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe.

If only we could know our parents when we are children.

We can say that we are struggling. It helps them to know that we are only human and doing the best that we can. They aren't stupid—they are just young. They aren't as naïve as you might imagine.

She was as old and dried up as broom straw, and I reckon she had forgotten what it was like to be young, and, anyhow, when she was in my time of life, there weren't no war on, and that makes a world of difference to the course of a life.

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

Maybe this is what our young doppelgangers failed to understand. They believed their good example would be enough. That being right was enough. They knew nothing about injured pride or the true inertia of human nature.

Even when I was a kid, I had a good thing with kids. To this day, if I go to a birthday party with one of my kids, I swear to you, I am so much happier hanging out with my kids and their friends than talking to the grown-ups.

Paul Schrader drove past theaters in New York where the film originally played and were at once thrilled and sickened to see lines of young men dressed in Bickle's familiar outfit of army fatigues and blue jeans, waiting to see the film for, presumably, second and third go-rounds.

A rookie centre from Saskatoon, "Endo" was as laidback as they come, kind of the team's Spicoli.

I was dating my first boyfriend in high school for a long time, and we broke up before prom. I hadn't met anyone else that I really wanted to go with, and my friends have always been amazing. So I went with my friends and got a million photos with them!

For the young, life is an opportunity; for the old life is a journey.

Youths out of school and without jobs is considered an economic issue but it's also social and security issue.

The initials of the Communist Party in the 1930s, VKP, were read by peasant wits to stand for "Second serfdom" (Vtoroe Krepostnoe Pravo), while in the reading of some Leningrad youths the initials of the USSR itself—SSSR [CCCP] in Russian—became "Stalin's death will save Russia" (Smert' Stalina Spaset Rossiiu).