Quotes About Youth

Her enchanted hair was the first gold, and still she sits, young while the earth is old.

I marked all kindred Powers the heart finds fair:-- Truth, with awed lips; and Hope, with eyes upcast; And Fame, whose loud wings fan the ashen Past To signal-fires, Oblivion's flight to scare; And Youth, with still some single golden hair Unto his shoulder clinging, since the last Embrace wherein two sweet arms held him fast; And Life, still wreathing flowers for Death to wear. Love's throne was not with these; but far above All passionate wind of welcome and farewell

We were lying on our backs in the foothills, watching the sky and making a list called "Never." All the things we would never do. Let's never get married. Let's never get fat. Let's never sleep with a married man. Let's never stop being students, even after we graduate. Let's never get dull-eyed and ironic. Let's never get stuck in a rut-- or trapped in a life we didn't choose. Let's never grow bitter.

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

she immediately became the person they believed her to be: a peculiar, impatient girl, attractive enough yet too old and odd for the village boys who had once been her friends.

I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.

Another remarkable thing about the dead is that they are all ages, preserved at every age you ever knew them, and at no age at all.

Why are children so much smarter than adults?

youth is like a good card, which one can either play or hide under one's vest.

As juvenile as we sound, sometimes the most fun thing in the world is laughing with girls about boys.

High school sweetheart" is such an innocuous-sounding term for something that can tear out your guts.

There's something about the sight of a gorgeous guy in an open convertible heading in your direction that makes all bad feelings evaporate into thin air.

Whatever age you are when you're first burned is old enough to lose hope that you'll ever get excited about anybody else.

Fugace è la giovinezza un soffio la maturità; poi avanza tremando vecchiaia e dura, dura un'eternità.

The older speak life and lessons to the younger, and the younger bring new energy and enthusiasm, pioneering a new way. Talk

When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there.

Students never appreciate their teachers while they are learning. It is only later, when they know more of the world, that they understand how indebted they are to those who instructed them. Good teachers expect no praise or love from the young. They wait for it, and in time, it comes.

Some books you never get over, like a first love. Some books that made an enormous impression on you when you were young you are afraid to read again years later, like being sorry you met that former love for coffee, because you couldn't see what you once saw. But there are those few books that can still move you in the old, throbbing way." "How I got over

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.

Even the brightest, best-meaning teenager doesn't tend to think much beyond the moment, especially when they're with their friends," observes Gerstenfeld. As people grow

Studies show that more than 90 percent of juveniles who are interrogated by police don't wait to talk to a lawyer and don't understand the rights the police have read them.

George and Harold were usually responsible kids. Whenever anything bad happened, George and Harold were usually responsible.

That's easy for you to say! You're just a kid. You don't know what a rotten, horrible place this world can be. It can be so cold...so cruel...so unforgiving..." "Papa...That's why we need to be good.

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.