Quotes About Youth

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation. So make your words count.

I am persuaded that our intellects at twenty contain all the truths we shall ever find

The beauty of being a woman, as the French say, "of a certain age", is that I can be invisible. Young people, both men and women, look right through me, unless I make the effort to be noticed.

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.What are brief? today and tomorrow.What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.What are deep? the ocean and truth.

His youth had been so long ago that he could remember nothing of it but he presumed, erroneously, that he had tasted the purple fruit, had broken hearts and hymens, had tossed flowers to ladies on balconies, had drunk champagne out of their shoes and generally been irresistible.

The youth felt it would be useless to clear up the problem of his name.

These three sere beings at the shadowy corner waited on. Nannie was sixtynine, Keda was twenty-two, Titus was twelve days old.

The nice thing about being an adolescent is being able to make mature decisions when you need them and being able to just flow alone with life when you don't.

What we must do now is create ourselves—not re-create, but create. This is why it is cruel. When we first did this, we had all the energy of youth. We did not know that attaining our dreams would be impossible—we just went out and got them. Innocence shielded us. Enthusiasm and unflagging confidence got us through. But now we have none of that. Now we are old, wiser, tired.

Picciotto recalled when he was a teenager writing to obscure English punk bands like Rudimentary Peni, Dead Wretched, and Blitz. "Those fuckers wrote us back, and it blew my mind," recalls Picciotto. "It was so cool to feel that connection. I've always kept that in mind. If someone writes you, you send them a letter back. It's just a cool thing to do.

Like Dick, Sonic Youth found beauty and genuineness in the messed-up and broken

KNOW THE SECRET: ROCK 'N' ROLL IS A TEENAGE SPORT, MEANT TO BE PLAYED BY TEENAGERS OF ALL AGES—THEY COULD BE 15, 25 OR 35. IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO WHETHER THEY'VE GOT THE LOVE IN THEIR HEARTS, THAT BEAUTIFUL TEENAGE SPIRIT…

punk rock as an alternative," he says, "a real attempt to change the social order of the world.

they also went out of their way to play all-ages shows, often hurting their draw by playing two sets a night.

I remember watching these kids getting up in the morning on my dorm floor, putting on a suit and tie and a briefcase, talking about this guy from California named Ronald Reagan and how he was going to be the next president," says Mould. "And I'd be sitting there arguing with those fucks in speech class and poli sci and just hating that, thinking, 'This is not acceptable behavior. This is not what we're supposed to be doing with our late teens.

I mean, rock music's got to be something that your mom would hate—if you want it to be really satisfying. We made music that moms would really hate

Punk in small towns in '88, '89 was just too dangerous to the normal way of doing things," Lunsford explains. "We found out how many walls there were in this free society that were blocking self-entertainment.

rock & roll was an intrinsic part of a young person's soul, an engine of social change and not just a consumer commodity.

When I was a kid, I hated the mask of adulthood. And I was threatened by it.

Only by being alone – by resisting the blandishments to become part of the crowd – can the young thinker develop to think independently.

Paddington] looked up to see that Mrs Brown had been joined by a little girl, with laughing blue eyes and long, fair hair.

Now you get off that Pegasus and come down here and start acting your age! Honey, he's four thousand years old, Veronica said.

The night is young, and by the grace of magic, so are we.

He turned into a rhinocerous, Ms. Smirt said. He does that, Sabrina said.