Quotes About Youth

Kalief Browder was arrested in 2010 at age sixteen for stealing a backpack and then held for three years without a trial on Rikers Island. During his time on Rikers, Kalief was beaten by both guards and inmates, and he spent an inconceivable two years in solitary confinement before his case was finally dismissed in 2013.

I said, "Juvenile delinquents eat chocolate cake, so chocolate cake must cause juvenile delinquency," but nobody listened to me. I wasn't on TV.

Oh, to be old again," said the young corpse.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

It was like being a fly on the wall at a meeting. JACK WELCH ON HIS JOB AT AGE TWELVE AS A CADDY FOR LOCAL BUSINESSMEN AT A SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, COUNTRY CLUB

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

Psycho did fix my image, for better or worse. For years afterward, many young ladies refused to take showers with me.

I wish I could concentrate on dancing Instead of spending so much time pretending I am still in junior high But with Rem, I want to be sixteen Or, like Alice in Wonderland, Sometimes smaller, Sometimes bigger still.

I calculate the breadth of Steven's shoulders, now wider than mine; watch him tear open the Blokus game he likes to play with me after school; count the hours between now and Dad coming home to take over and I am only a little afraid of the night.

You been tellin' me you're a genius Since you were seventeen In all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean --Steely Dan

You've been telling me you're a genius since you were seventeen In all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean.

Lightly, caressingly, Marie Antoinette picked up the crown as a gift. She was still too young to know that life never gives anything for nothing, and that a price is always exacted for what fate bestows. She did not think she would have to pay a price.

Being beautiful in itself, youth needs no transfiguration: in its abundance of strong life it is drawn to the tragic, and is happy to let melancholy suck sweetly from its still inexperienced bloom, and the very same phenomenon accounts for the readiness of young people to face danger and reach out a fraternal hand to all spiritual suffering

No hay nada en el mundo que sea equiparable al secreto amor de una niña que permanece en la penumbra y tiene pocas esperanzas.

IF I TRY TO FIND some useful phrase to sum up the time of my childhood and youth before the First World War, I hope I can put it most succinctly by calling it the Golden Age of Security.

Hemen ÅŸöyle düÅŸündüm, eÄŸer bir avans veriyorlarsa temiz bir iÅŸ olmal?, bu ateÅŸli arazilerde mezar taÅŸlar?n?n bizdekinden üç kat h?zl? çoÄŸald???n? biliyordum, ama insan genç olunca ateÅŸin ve ölümün her zaman baÅŸkalar?na s?çrayaca??n? düÅŸünür.

What one's muscles have missed can be made up later; the élan toward the intellectual, the soul's inner grasping power, is set in motion in those decisive formative years, and only he who has learned early to spread his soul out wide may later hold the entire world within himself.

Seuls les enfants solitaires peuvent contenir toute leur passion; les autres, à trop causer éventent leurs sentiments en public, les émoussent en vaines confidences.

should judge the aptitude of a child not by his memory but by the testimony of his life… Let the young man read and sift and verify, not just accept the authority in good faith. A rich variety of opinions must be presented to him. He will make his choice, and if he cannot, then he will remain in doubt. He who sheep-like follows another follows nothing. He discovers nothing, because he seeks nothing.

But only in youth does coincidence seem the same as fate. Later, we know that the real course of our lives is decided within us; our paths may seem to diverge from our wishes in a confused and pointless way, but in the end the way always leads us to our invisible destination.

Wat een mens zijn spieren tekort heeft laten komen, kan later nog worden ingehaald; maar opstijgen naar het geestelijke, de innerlijke kracht van de ziel, kan alleen in die beslissende vormende jaren worden geoefend, en alleen wie vroeg heeft geleerd zijn ziel te vergroten, kan later de hele wereld in zich opnemen.

What a man has taken into his bloodstream in childhood from the air of that time stays with him.

In this manner I had convinced myself more vividly than by mere strolling about how much room, how much opportunity there was in this young country for anyone willing to work, and that impressed me.

Bu yaÅŸlardaki genç k?zlar için okuduklar? ÅŸiirlerin iyi mi kötü mü, sahici mi yoksa uyduruk mu olduÄŸunun hiç önemi yoktur. Dizeler onlar için susuzluklar?n? dindiren kadehlerdir, içindeki ÅŸaraba dikkat etmezler, çünkü daha içmeden sarhoÅŸturlar.