Quotes About Youth

Knowledge is an old error remembering its youth

Las clases, los primeros novios, todo eso por lo que se abandona momentáneamente el patinaje en la vida, sin saber que se abandona ya para siempre.

Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.

I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

Amalia est en colère : quand sa prof comprendra-t-elle qu'un livre ne s'impose pas, qu'il se rencontre ?

Wanting to be a movie star....answering an ad at ten or eleven. You made your mother drive you to Hollywood.

Werther s-a sinucis, apoi tineri din toat? Europa l-au urmat ?i s-au sinucis ?i ei, mai pu?in autorul lui, Goethe, viclean maestru al practicii, a tr?it.

La ?aptezeci ?i doi de ani, viitorul e ceea ce jelesc. Din facultate n-am uitat-o niciodat? pe Ma?a în Pesc?ru?ul spunând Sunt în doliu dup? via?a mea.

Old, he included himself in his scorn for those who young want the opposite of this earth then settle for more of it.

A fair estimate is that Bobby played one thousand games a year between the ages of nine and eleven, and twelve thousand a year from the ages of eleven to thirteen, most of them speed games.

Wir wollten diese Finals unbedingt machen, wollten das Duell Detlef Schrempf gegen Michael Jordan ins Deutsche Fernsehen bringen. Das war unser Traum. Uns war doch völlig egal, ob das nach deutscher Zeit mitten in der Nacht war! Das interessierte uns nicht. Ganz schön egoistisch. Aber im Nachhinein zeigte sich, das ganze Schülerschaften von zwölf- bis achtzehnjährigen sich die Nächte um die Ohren schlugen, um diese Duelle zu sehen.

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.

What role models do kids have nowadays?Some ridiculously overpaid footballer prone to childish tantrums?The morons in the Big Brother house,perhaps? Or maybe the various gun-toting rappers who regularly delight us with their expletive-ridden vocabulary and eccentric attitude to women?

Let's get one thing straight:when gangs of youth throw stones at passing cars,shout abuse at innocent people going about their daily business or beat up random passers-by,they are not doing it 'because there is nothing to do' they are doing it because it's fun and in modern day, punishment-free Britain, there is no reason for them not to.

The truth is that the fever of desire in youth is fleeting disease that intimacy promptly cure.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

To me, young has no meaning. It's something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And if you have it, you never lose it.

Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.

Just let them sit in the goddam sun. But the world won't let them because there's nothing more dangerous than letting old farts sit in the sun. They might be thinking. Same thing with kids. Keep 'em busy or they might start thinking.

This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle - broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an older man, I surely would ... ... but I'm a man of thirty - of twenty again. The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again ...

Remember the words of Taine: "for a young person the world always seems a scandalous place". Later in life, the world seems only to be an imperfect place which can be worked on here and there. I'm told that finally, in old age, the world becomes either infinitely amusing or infinitely annoying — according to one's temperament.

Mothers of America let your kids go to the movies! get them out of the house so they won't know what you're up to it's true that fresh air is good for the body but what about the soul that grows in darkness, embossed by silvery images and when you grow old as grow old you must they won't hate you

they were too young then to know what they would ultimately need from a barren and heart-sore life...

we are all happy and young and toothless it is the same as old age the only thing to do is simply continue is that simple yes, it is simple because it is the only thing to do can you do it yes, you can because it is the only thing to do