Quotes About Youth

It helps, of course - let's not get carried away - if you'er a young prince like Mizzy, and you've actually got something of value to destroy in the first place.

a much younger woman, one of those round-faced, tiny-featured women who were touted as beauties though they were not in fact particularly beautiful. They were simply the daughters of wealthy families powerful enough to demand that the concept of beauty be expanded to include them.

Your life is short, son. Ours is long. Much too long. But we both live in time. You a short time. We a long time. The Childlike Empress has always been there. But she's not old. She has always been young. She still is. Her life isn't measured by time, but by names. She needs a new name. She keeps needing new names.

When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain... As they explained, this had been sung by a human who had visited Fantastica long years before, name of Shexper, or something of the sort.

Why are you so sad? Why are you crying? You sound so young. Why speak of dying?

scientists from the University of California, San Francisco, continuously infused the blood of young mice into old mice—and found that the old mice functioned as young ones.

But the quest to preserve your brain is not just about avoiding something that's scary. It's also about preserving and extending youth, and youthful curiosity, learning, playfulness, and relationship building.

I think that Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.

That was somewhere near the middle of a modern gold rush. Never before have so many unskilled twenty-four-year-olds made so much money in so little time as we did this decade in New York and London.

young man who set out to study the Talmud, not because he had the slightest interest in God but because he was curious about its internal contradictions.

The long-shot bet, in some strange way, was a young man's game. Charlie Ledley and Jamie Mai no longer felt, or acted, quite so young.

WHEN HE WAS a young man Billy Beane could beat anyone at anything.

He'd played sports in high school, and then proved that a young man with the build of St. Francis of Assisi could play wide receiver for the Harvard varsity football team.

The new companies often put the old ones out of business; the young were forever eating the old. The whole of the Valley was a speeded-up Oedipal drama. In this drama technology played a very clear role. It was the murder weapon.

There is nowhere, anywhere, as socially dense as school classrooms, school hallways, school buses

His first mistake, he decided, was to have paid insufficient attention to Joey Dorsey's age. "He was insanely old," says Morey. "He was twenty-four years old when we drafted him." Dorsey's college career was impressive because he was so much older than the people he played against.

Growing older, it appears, does not mean growing up.

When you're young you can't work out the age of an adult - they're just quite old, old, or very old.

but the truth is - and I am ashamed of this now - that I was far more interested in boys and bicycles, than in politics - and more in bicycles than boys, I have to say.

Michael Morpurgo

To me soldiers had appeared to become younger as the war went on, and Rudy was no exception to this [...]. And like so many of them now he looked, without his helmet, like a child dressed up as a soldier.

Nationalism is the political manifestation of a folk's collective unconscious; heathenism/ satanism is the spiritual manifestation. Both ascend from the same source. Its therefore no coincidence that occultism and nationalism/facism have both claimed common adherents prior to the present interest in both by youth.

What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. He cannot alter what he loves most in her, her lack of compromise, where the romance of the poems she loves still sits with ease in the real world. Outside these qualities he knows there is no order in the world.