Quotes About Youth

by age seven, many of the habits that will help kids manage their money are already set.

and though her life had not been what her more youthful self would have dreamed, it had been unmistakably, irrevocably hers.

I heard she married some hunter, well, they all marry hunters, so did I, ha! You're just as foolish I expect, young girls are, some lad catches your eye and there's your whole life gone, snap, a lap full of babies and grandbabies and it's all over, you're an old woman knitting at the hearth and that's it, that's it!' I could not wait to get out of there. She shrank my whole life to the size of a poppy seed, and ate it.

I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.

Writing, like drugs and recreational sex, becomes an activity associated with youth.

The highest hope of Socrates' peers, of young Athenian men, was to serve Athens by dying for her.

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.

Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.

Thirty-five is the age for a woman, in my opinion. Oh—to stay thirty-five forever.

All I know is that growing up hurts too much. Growing down is what I'd really like to do. Be little enough again so it would be perfectly natural to be protected from the wind and the rain—and the world.

The popularity of Tolkien, of "Star Wars," of "The Empire Strikes Back" shows that young people have a tremendous need for this fantastic elevation of good against evil, where good wins out, but the battle always has to begin anew.

His sister was a teenager named Lucinda

I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a lovely life. 'Oh... I'm 30, oh, I'm 40, oh, 50.' Make the most of it.

She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.

Quite often somebody will say, 'What year do your books take place?' and the only answer I can give is, in childhood.

The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.

Sometimes the assumptions we make about others come not from what we have been told or what we have seen on television or in books, but rather rom what we have not been told. The distortion of historical information about people of color leads young people (and older people to) to make assumptions that may go unchallenged for a long time.

They began swinging high and higher as the sky opened its arms wide.

rushed upstairs and slipped into new jeans and a hot-pink wool sweater with a white T underneath. Then I went into the bathroom to do my hair. I brushed it vigorously, then parted it down the middle and made two big braids, one on either side of my head. I finished the outfit off with a pretty beaded bracelet featuring every conceivable shade of pink. Perfect.

The Canarsie People said the knowing belongs to the old and wise, but the unfolding is in the keeping of the young. The old prevent the young from straying off the path of wisdom. The young yearn after the path of dreams. Between the two there is truth.

Rebellion sounded like a lot of fun, but in Calcutta there was nothing to rebel against. Where would it get you?

Our life is like th' unstable wave, Our bloom of youth decays. Our joys are brief as lightning flash In summer's cloudy days, Our riches fleet as swift as thought; Faith in the One Supreme Alone will bear us o'er the gulfs Of Being's stormy stream.