Quotes About Youth

There is something dead about a lawn which has never been shadowed by the swift silhouette of a dancing kitten.

Ramona drummed harder to show everyone how bad she was. She would not take off her shoes. She was a terrible, wicked girl! Being such a bad, terrible, wicked girl made her feel good! She brought both heels against the wall at the same time. Thump! Thump! Thump! She was not the least bit sorry for what she was doing. She would never be sorry. Never! Never! Never!

He would be atleast sixteen-old enough to have a driver's licence- and he would have crinkles around his eyes that showed he had a sense of humor and he would be tall, the kind of boy all the other girls would like to date

Halfway to the house Stan stopped and turned to Jane. He put his hands on her shoulders and drew her toward him. I'm glad we're going steady, he whispered. So am I. In spite of the reassuring weight of his bracelet on her wrist, Jane suddenly felt shy. It seemed strange to be so close to Stan, to feel his crisp clean shirt against her cheek. She could not look up at him. Gently Stan lifted her face to his. You're my girl, he whispered. -Fifteen

Ramona considered all these worries ridiculous, so she ignored them.

Ralph really felt sorry for the boy, hampered as he was by his youth and his mother.

Ramona was filled with the glory of losing her first tooth and love for her teacher. Miss Binney had said she was brave! This day was the most wonderful day in the world! The sun shone, the sky was blue, and Miss Binney loved her.

IF YOU ARE EATING PEAS THINK OF ME BEFORE YOU SNEEZE Signed, Yard Ape PRESIDENT

She wanted a grown-up to be wrong for a change. She was tired of the rightness of grown-ups.

Well, she thought, I'm certainly bright. She had wanted to meet a new boy and when she finally did meet one she didn't even find out his name

I know this is probably sort of sudden. The boy hesitated. But I was wodnering if you would care to go to the movies with me tomorrow night.

And the muscles of his scrawny arms Are strong as rubber bands.

What's the use of having a motorcycle if you can't go tearing around staying out late?" Ralph asked reasonably.

I know," answered Yard Ape, "but we just keep him for a pet.

She felt good from making a lot of noise, she felt good from the hard work from walking so far in her tin can stilts, she felt good from calling a grown-up pieface and from the triumph of singing backwards from ninety-nine to one. She felt good from being out after dark with the rain on her face and the streetlights shining down on her.

Tiddlywinks, tiddlywinks, I want to play tiddlywinks, chanted Ramona, shaking her head back and forth.

Never mind the danger, never mind what his mother thought. This was living. This was what he wanted to do. On and on and on.

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make. Henry sent it back across the street. Pow! Scooter

IRWIN J. SNEED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

You have a little brother, she reminded him. I know, answered Yard Ape, but we just keep him for a pet.

The book I read said ten is the nicest age of growing up. It said ten-year-olds are pleasant and agreeable

Nobody had to tell Ramona life was full of disappointments. She already knew.

Her age was difficult too- not old enough to sit down with her mother and sew something she wanted to sew and too old to go pulling out a whole box of Kleenex and flinging it all over the house like Willa Jean. People should not think being seven-and-a-half was easy because it wasn't