Quotes About Youth

Youth, health, wealth and beauty are meant to be fuel, to be burned in pursuit of pleasure, and not fruit to be pickled in anticipation of some future famine. (Hang on a minute and I'll get my sequins out and give you a quick rendition of 'My Way')

Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat.

Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

puerile passion.

Above ground, many of us are ungainly and awkward, slowing down with the years.... Down below, at the pool, we are restored to old youthful selves. Grey hairs vanish beneath dark blue swim caps. Brows unfurrow, limps disappear.

She drained the pasta and looked out the window over the sink. In the middle of the street, paying no attention whatsoever to oncoming cars, two little boys were jousting with hockey sticks while riding bicycles, their mother observing through a fog of cigarette smoke and a beer. Human beings, Janet thought, were a disappointment.

Children always take their own parents for idiots.

I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.

It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.

On Trial – Spurs are giving a month's trial to an amateur, Wm. E. Nicholson, an inside-right of Scarborough Working Men's Club. He recently celebrated his 17th birthday. His height is 5ft 8in and weight 10st 12lb.

The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.

Es raro cómo se puede perder la inocencia de golpe, sin saber siquiera que se ha entrado en otra vida.

Kinder sollen nie Wein trinken. (Außer an Neujahr; dann sollen sie saufen.)

Wer als Kleiner raucht, kriegt als Großer Tuberkulose.

Así habían empezado a andar por un París fabuloso, dejándose llevar por los signos de la noche,....deteniéndose en las placitas confidenciales para besarse en los bancos o mirar las rayuelas, los ritos infantiles del guijarro y el salto sobre un pie para entrar en el Cielo.

presente es un extraño y confuso futuro donde chicos con tricotas y muchachas de pelo suelto beben sus cafés crème y se acarician con una lenta gracia de gatos o de plantas.

Bruno, se solo potessi vivere come in quei momenti, o come quando suono e anche il tempo cambia... Ti rendi conto di che cosa potrebbe succedere in un minuto e mezzo... Allora un uomo, non soltanto io, ma tu e quella là e tutti i ragazzi, potremmo vivere mille volte di più di quello che stiamo vivendo per colpa degli orologi, di questa mania dei minuti e dei dopodomani...

El tiempo había pasado a toda velocidad. Y había dejado su huella en nosotros pero también en la ciudad que tanto disfrutamos y vivimos cuando la juventud corría por nuestras venas y nuestras Ilusiones estaban intactas.

Cuando uno es joven y vive ajeno a la realidad, cuando las estaciones pasan sin grandes cambios ni alteraciones, como si fueran nubes en día sin viento, cuando la felicidad consiste en dejarse arrastrar por los sentidos, uno percibe sólo el presente, y el futuro y el pasado pasan a un segundo plano, cuando no desaparecen por completo. Es como en medio del mar, donde sólo existe éste.

La vida no tiene vuelta. Como la juventud o el viento, la vida pasa y nunca retorna por más que nos neguemos a aceptarlo.

Mira al cielo con la fascinación de quien cree que el tiempo es eterno, como yo lo creí también. Y como lo seguiría creyendo si la edad no empezara ya a asustarme, algo que nunca creí que me ocurriría.

How could I be sure of these teeangers' national origin? Was I using names of origin to give them a place instead, when it was clear that they were moving toward a new language?

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

Our runaways may well be the backbone courageous among our kids: the ones who will risk hunger and forced prostitution and jail and death, in order to say NO to this overwhelming suffocation and victimizing, adult defeat into which they have been trapped, by dint of being born.