Quotes About Youth

Smiling is not a duty, but a freedom. It's up to you now; you are liberated from the expectations and conformities of youth.

Socrates, Plato's teacher, had been condemned to death, as an incredulous corrupter of youth. Plato wrote several dialogues in his defense, and by the first century Socrates was considered one of the greatest sages of antiquity.

The greatest reverence is due the young.

A child is owed the greatest respect if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.

Be gentle with the young.

When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

I've always had this theory, that we're all born with a certain optimum age, the age we're really meant to be, and once we reach it we stick there, in our minds, where it counts. Personally I've always been twenty-five. I was good at being twenty-five.

I'd finally given her what she wanted, the elixir of eternal youth, effected by the removal of her internal fire (the catalyst of change) through the agency of death.

The idea that he and Scott could get away together, maybe hang out for the hour before he has to rush back to get picked up by his mother in front of the school—when he thinks of that, he feels almost hungry. He's aware of his own brain working in ways it never used to: a switch has been flicked and he is now a stranger to himself—a stranger he has not yet decided he wants to be.

Beginning to sense his call to preach boldly in dangerous situations even though he was young and slight, the author agreed to go only if God would give him a particular sense of His presence. The next morning, the author says it was as if God took out his human eyes and replaced them with God's own because he saw other people so much more vividly.

But I was young then and had yet to appreciate the wisdom of Bogart, particularly as regards the problems of three little people not amounting to a hill of beans in this or any other crazy world.

By the age of twelve, he was using the family typewriter to correspond with a number of well-known local geologists about the rock formations he had studied in Central Park. Not aware of his youth, one of these correspondents nominated Robert for membership in the New York Mineralogical Club, and soon thereafter a letter arrived inviting him to deliver a lecture before the club.

Somewhere in the last few months, it's like someone has flicked a switch and he's gone from "cute looking boy" to "muscular sexy man" just like that.", Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow

She's done so much to care for others, whether it's inviting inner city kids into her school to keep them out of trouble and away from gangs, or taking me and the others in every summer, or just doing so much to help her students with their dreams.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

I want it to stay that magical place where we spent so many summers.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

I'm just saying that there are plenty of girls who would. So it means more if he likes you enough that he kissed you." That actually makes a weird kind of sense, which suggests I've been spending too much time out in the sun with Rachel today.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

Oh, Summer, I'm sorry. It's just that he's so totally hot, and… not as hot as Ryan, obviously." "Obviously," I say, trying to keep a straight face.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

Nat was my first real boyfriend. My first kiss. I can remember when he used to defend me from the bullies back in kindergarten. He shouldn't be allowed to go around looking like some kind of rock star.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

My parents thought that I had ADD when I was young," I say, remembering. "I couldn't concentrate well then. That just made me frustrated. Angry. It was only when I started running… running helped me to deal with it.", Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow

We'll make a hero of you yet, young villain!

Lichilai, a Sung poet, has sadly remarked that there were three most deplorable things in the world: the spoiling of fine youths through false education, the degradation of fine art through vulgar admiration, and the utter waste of fine tea through incompetent manipulation.

Alguien ha dicho que el hombre es, a los diez años, un animal; a los veinte, un loco; a los treinta, un fracasado; a los cuarenta, un falsario y a los cincuenta, un criminal.

Said he (Sung Dynasty critic): "In my young days I praised the masters whose pictures I liked, but as my judgment matured I praised myself for liking what the masters had chosen to have me like.

I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.