Quotes About Youth

When I was twenty, I thought I knew everything there was to know. By thirty, I realised I didn't know shit. I had spent ten years learning things that I would then spend ten years having to unlearn.

Có th?i ?i?m, kho?ng t?m gi?a tu?i hai m??i và hai m??i l?m, ta chân thành ngh? r?ng mình s? không tr? nên gi?ng v?i nh?ng ng??i khác.

Curiosa sensación: cuando era pequeño, el año 2000 pertenecía a la ciencia ficción. Debo de haber crecido porque, ahora, resulta que es el año pasado.

Youth is an obligation; that is to say, you have an absolute duty to be happy and to preserve a good memory of yourself for one who loves you.

All the sad young men,Drifting through the town,Drinking up the night,Trying not to drown.

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far more likely to elicit a cheerful response than "Where's your manuscript?" Why haven't you called?" and "Who's your lawyer?"

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Mi juventud no ha sido más que un largo suicidio. Me apresuraba a desagradar sólo por el temor de desagradar naturalmente.

Il ne songeait pas à prolonger son bonheur jusqu'aux confins de cette nuit pesante. Toutes les étoiles ne lui eussent servi de rien, ni l'odeur des acacias. La nuit d'été battait en vain ce jeune mâle bien armé, sûr de sa force, à cette minute, sûr de son corps, indifférent à ce que le corps ne peut pas posséder.

Un abogado de mi edad, ¿no hubiese podido conocer, acaso, ciertas insinuaciones? Prescindiendo del hombre de negocios, muchas mujeres jóvenes habrían deseado excitar al hombre... Pero yo había perdido la fe en las criaturas, o, más que nada, en mi poder de gustar a alguna de ellas.

Je fais des films pour réaliser mes rêves d'adolescent, pour me faire du bien et, si possible, faire du bien aux autres.

Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.

He knew his love for her was more a desire to save her, to be her superhero, and it was partly a desire to do what people who are in love do, and partly a desire to feel young again with her, because Ying Li was very young, and she looked even younger.

Ah God! Had I but studiedIn the days of my foolish youth.

We thought ourselves kings of the ages. Now we find that all our civilisation has been nothing but a brief, brightly lit nursery, where we have played with paper crowns and wooden sceptres.

To be young is to be powerless, but to have delusions of power. To believe that one can really change things, make the world better and simpler in good and simple ways. To grow old is to realize that nobody is ever good, nothing is ever simple. That truth is cruel at first, but finally comforting.

Hmm. Did you used to be smaller? About so high?' He held out his hand three and a half feet above what now appeared to be the ground. 'Er...yes? Um...some years ago?' Neverfell was not sure what more to say. 'That's...normal, isn't it? People getting bigger?' 'Yes, I suppose so.

Gravelip, a young, slight footman with a pocked nose and large ears, obediently gave a smile like toothache. He seemed less than delighted to have outpaced his friends in the ugliness race.

This is the young lady with the printed heart.

What a world this is, he thought. Children put us to shame with their pluck, and are shot in the back for it.

Just between you and me,' Mosca whispered, 'radicalism is all about walkin' on the grass.