Quotes About Youth

and all children everywhere go through a phase in which they become oddly fascinated with the idea of "gone" and "all gone.

If you took all the young men in southern England with those caps and that slouch and collected them all together in one room, you still wouldn't have enough IQ points to make a halfwit.

Andrea di Pietro della Gondola, who in 1524, aged not quite sixteen, arrived in Vicenza

He had experiences as rich and memorable as any young man has ever enjoyed, and was moved by none of them.

According to one survey, half of people under the age of thirty said they would sacrifice their sense of smell rather than part with a favored electronic device.

I took a big draft of my beer, warmed by my reminiscences, and quietly delighted at the thought that my schooldays were forever behind me, that never again for as long as I lived would I have to bevel an edge or elucidate the principles of the Volstead Act in not less than 250 words or give even a mouse-sized shit about which far-flung countries produce jute and what they do with it. It is a thought that never fails to cheer me. In

When more than one teenager is in a car, for instance, the risk of an accident multiplies by 400 percent.

They explained to me that this is simply an affliction of age. The older you get the more it seems the world belongs to other people.

Jonathan Bate quotes a couplet from Cymbeline, "Golden lads and girls all must, / As chimney sweepers, come to dust

It was one of the things you put up with: that every Saturday young males trashed your trains, broke the windows of your pubs, destroyed your cars, wreaked havoc on your town centres. I didn't buy it, but it seemed to be so.

Her eyes drift up and away, enlarging them, a beautiful copper color. It makes her look even younger. Less of the hardened image she's trying to project and more the scared kid she must be, underneath it all.

I never inhaled.

Old is always fifteen years from now.

If a fourteen year-old can deliver your message, it's not because he's gifted. It's because intellectually, you're a child.

Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty. Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.

CALVIN: When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.

It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.

Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.

I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.

Calvin: Trick or Treat! Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak! ...Boy, am I scary or what?

But for my own example, I'd never believe one little kid could have so much brains!