Quotes About Youth

if she can't get a proper boyfriend at nineteen what hope is there for when she's older?

from a child's perspective all adults are old and fat

Lennox is more like Clovis than she likes to think, physically and temperamentally Winsome reckons this is why Shirley chose him, subconsciously he was familiar to her Maybe that's why Winsome herself took to her son-in-law A younger, sexier version of the man she married

it's so crazy that the disgusting perma-tanned billionaire has set a new intellectual and moral low by being president of America and basically it all means that the older generation has RUINED EVERYTHING and her generation is doooooomed

Yazz sometimes has sleepless nights worrying she'll be alone for the whole of her life if she can't get a proper boyfriend at nineteen what hope is there for when she's older?

I see now that my feminism as a young woman was paper thin. I was possessed of the fervor of a born-again and had learned the rhetoric, but not yet examined myself enough to live by and through my values.

You're either a figure for fucking or a fucking freak. Everyone needs a one-and-only after a while. I'm twenty-two, Zuky-do. Middle aged! A Venus must 'ave an Adonis. Even if it's just for a while. Bronzed, rippling, adoring, preferably, compliant, essentially. Someone to come home to, to cook a pease pudding for of a winter's night. Look at the facts.

Not one word about income inequality, climate change, Citizens United or student debt. That's why the Rs are so out of touch.

In the richest country in the history of the world, every student who has the desire and the ability should be able to go to college.

A college degree today is the equivalent of a high school degree 50 years ago. We need tuition-free public colleges.

In other words, we have a major American (and global) industry whose business model is designed to attract young people to their products, chemically addict them, cause them terrible suffering and death, and then pass the hundreds of billions a year in medical costs on to the taxpayers.

Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in 80's movies? I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my window. I wanna ride off on a lawnmower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from Sixteen Candles waiting outside the church for me. I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist into the air because he knows he got me. Just once I want my life to be like an 80's movie, preferably one with a really awesome musical number for no apparent reason. But no, no, John Hughes did not direct my life.

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.

Boy meets girl. So what?

Die da alt sind, hör ich, haben nichts zu hoffen Denn nur Zeit schafft's, und an Zeit gebricht's. Doch uns Jungen, hör ich, steht das Tor weit offen Freilich, hör ich, steht es offen nur ins Nichts.

The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a purely utilitarian point of view as the road to money, not as the gateway to wisdom.

Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.

Oh, why couldn't they know? Why did an old woman seem always to have been old? Abbie was back on the knoll near the Big Woods, singing...her head thrown back...her thick hair curling and rippling over her creamy white shoulders. Why couldn't they understand that once she had kept tryst with Youth? Why didn't they realize that some day, they, too must hold rendezvous with Age?

On another note - Sarton writes about "people in their thirties mourning their lost youth because we have given them no ethos that makes maturity appear an asset." I very much feel this to be true. Turning twenty-one is the nadir of American achievement, one can get smashed legally, and as there are no further milestones after that, each succeeding birthday reeks of diminishment. People start to lie about their age, as if maturity is a thing to be ashamed of.

When you push your stroller past a group of elderly women, you'll see in the turning gladness of their bodies a glimpse of the children they had been, turning toward the tin music of the ice cream van.

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.

'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.

When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.

Don't grow up too fast, darling. Age is inevitalbe but if you nurture a childlike heart you'll never grow old.