Quotes About Youth

A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.

I love my hair. When I was young it had weird kinks and cowlicks in it, but I just grew into it. You grow into a lot of things.

I feel like I've always been in love with dance. When I was little kid I would always be the one who would be like, okay let's make up some dance routines.

And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall. And how her face looked when she realized she was in love with that boy.

I don't love the years going by. I'd just as soon stay forty-five. But it's OK because I feel a whole lot better than I did at thirty-five.

Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love.

Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.

I think teen-age love is a great thing. There's nothing quite like it and never will be for the rest of your life.

Always been a big heavy metal fan. I remember being 15 saying, Dude I'm going to love heavy metal forever. Heavy metal til I'm 60. I'm 35 now. I think I'm going to give it one more year.

I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.

It was certainly true that Todd had been a reckless driver. Teenage boys often were, especially when they'd had a few beers. And what teenage boy didn't have a beer now and again? Things happen. Besides, no one knew for sure, and no one would ever know for sure.

His likes were video games, not going to class, not talking about his past . . . And Stevie.

I spoke to each counselor, one-on-one, to find out exactly what was going on that night. When I got to Paul—he couldn't really answer. He said something vague about taking a walk. I knew right away what that meant. I knew he was gay. I knew who most of my gay kids were, and I always tried to look out for them. I was gay and closeted too, but I was an adult.

In his school photo, Edward had a rakish grin, like he knew something the others did not. A bit like David.

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.

Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!

He's just a boy, pretending to be a wolf, pretending to be king

Where the Wild Things Are was not meant to please everybody – only children. A letter from a seven-year-old boy encourages me to think that I have reached children as I had hoped. He wrote: 'How much does it cost to get to where the wild things are? If it is not expensive my sister and I want to spend the summer there. Please answer soon.' I did not answer that question, for I have no doubt that sooner or later they will find their way, free of charge.

Books don't go out of fashion with children. They just go out of fashion with adults and publishers.

The game he loved, that America loved, had passed him by, left him enamored more of its past than of its present or future. It had grown younger as he grew older.

She was a pretty girl, with a pointed face and blue-black hair. But she was an untidy, a dusty sort of girl, and you felt that in a few years something might go wrong; she might get swollen ankles or grow a mustache.

It happened that at the late age of twenty-seven I had run away from home. High time, you might say; but rebels can't always be choosers.

The children were small and still belonged to them.

Somehow a group of middle-aged men had transformed themselves into the immature kids they'd been back in their college days.