Quotes About Youth

And has it ever occurred to you, Miss Griffith, that you would probably not be able to take a good express train to London if little Georgie Stephenson had been out with his youth movement instead of lolling about, bored, in his mother's kitchen until the curious behaviour of the kettle lid attracted the attention of his idle mind?

Nice looking young lady, but the ordinary kind, not glamourous, no Hollywood touch about her.

Sheila's about the only young girl in this place and she naturally assumes that she ought to have it all her own way with the young things in trousers. Naturally it annoys her when a woman, who in her view is middle-aged and who has already two husbands to her credit, comes along and licks her on her own ground. [...] No, I think it's age daring to defeat youth that annoys her so much!

Young people belong to their generation. We may think they're unwise in many of their doings, but we have to accept their decisions.

He was not fond of young people in herds. He thought them uninteresting and crude.

Love is not everything, Mademoiselle," Poirot said gently. "It is only when we are young that we think it is.

They wish not to become adult—not to have to accept our kind of responsibility. And yet like all children, they want to be thought grown up, and free to do what they think are grown up things. And that leads sometimes to tragedy and sometimes to the aftermath of tragedy.

Why did Juliet fall for Romeo? Well for one thing, with all due deference for Shakespeare, he happened to be the first man she had seen.

Nowadays young people seem to think they can just go about doing anything they choose.

In spite of all my aches and pains, and I've got plenty. Inside I go on feeling just a chit like Gina. Perhaps everyone does. The glass shows them how old they are and they just don't believe it. It seems only a few months ago that we were at Florence. Do you remember Fräulein Schweich and her boots?" The two elderly women laughed together at events that had happened nearly half a century ago.

It was not unknown in the present age for children to commit crimes, quite young children. Children of seven, of nine and so on, and it was often difficult to know how to dispose of these natural, it seemed, young criminals who came before the juvenile courts. Excuses had to be brought for them. Broken homes. Negligent and unsuitable parents. But the people who spoke the most vehemently for them, the people who sought to bring forth every excuse for them, were usually the type of Rowena Drake.

A susceptible child is capable of great hero worship, and a young mind can easily be obsessed by an idea which persists into adult life.

By Jove, Poirot,' I exclaimed, 'did you see that young goddess?' Poirot

Qué absurdo llamar a la juventud el tiempo de la felicidad! ¡La juventud es la edad de mayor vulnerabilidad!" (Muerte en el Nilo)

Seni yang benar-benar seni, tentu saja berbeda, dan anak-anak muda itu memakai alasan seni untuk membenarkan sikap mereka yang malas-malasan

Belki de kurtulmak ne demektir bilmiyorsun.' Vera, 'Kurtulmak m??' diye hayretle sordu. 'Henüz çok gençsin... Bu duyguyu henüz tan?m?yorsun. Ama s?rt?ndaki a??r yükü ta??maktan yoruldu?unda, kurtulmak isteyeceksin. Bunu sen de bir gün hissedeceksin mutlaka.

they are only full of pity for the young killer, because of his youth. Why should they not execute him? We have taken the lives of wolves, in this country; we didn't try to teach the wolf to lie down with the lamb–I doubt really if we could have. We hunted down the wild boar in the mountains before he came down and killed the children by the brook. Those were our enemies–and we destroyed them. What

But that is how life is viewed. When you are young, you are YOUNG; when you are in vigour you are a 'VERY strong man'; when your vigour begins to fail, you are OLD. If old, you might as well be as old as possible.

She breathed an enormous sigh, looked at Poirot, Looked away, and suddenly blurted out, "You're too old. Nobody told me you were so old. I really don't want to be rude but - there it is. You're too old. I'm really sorry." She turned abruptly and blundered out of the room, rather like a desperate moth in lamplight. Poirot, his mouth open, heard the bang of the front door. He ejaculated: "Non d'un nom d'un nom...

Yes. Of course, you're very young… you haven't got to that yet. But it does come! The blessed relief when you know that you've done with it all—that you haven't got to carry the burden any longer. You'll feel that too, someday…

You don't stop being in love with anyone because you get old. People like Derek and Deborah think you do. They can't imagine anyone who isn't young being in love.

Men are like that... They remain boys...

Girls are foolish things.

The young people think that the old people are fools, but the old people KNOW the young people are fools.