Quotes About Youth

when the tears of a whole generation are assembled they will only fill a coffee cup just because they evaporate doesn't mean life has heat

instead of hanging around the yard or up in their room hating you prematurely since you won't have done anything horribly mean yet except keeping them from the darker joys

And as for you, Holden, old son: if you happen to meet my body coming through the rye, I'd really appreciate it if you'd just stand aside and get out of my fucking way.

I also knew that I was on my way to becoming the worst athlete in the history of American boyhood.

Ich bin drei Jahre älter, und der Ältere ist immer weiser als der Jüngere. Da ich mich nicht für Weise halte, könnt Ihr ungefähr ermessen, wo Ihr steht. Und jetzt Ruhe!

I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.

Fairy tales can come true It can happen to you If you're young at heart

Life's miseries fall disproportionately on children.

Punk rock is very, very much like Catholicism. It gets you when you're young, you probably hate it at some point, but it never goes away. It still informs the way you see the world.

Today, youth pastors are part of the professional clergy. Their position is built on the contemporary church's misguided choice to honor a division that was born in secular culture less than a century ago—namely, the division between teenager and everyone else.

At seventeen I'm waiting for my life to actually begin. I'm afraid I'll wake up tomorrow eighty years old and I WILL STILL BE WAITING.

Surprise! Adolescence is not an exciting adventure. It's actually very boring and lonelier than you could ever imagine.

In my opinion it is unwise to judge a young man by his school record. We have too many examples of bad students becoming distinguished men, and, on the other hand, of brilliant students not being at all remarkable in life.

I do not believe in pathos. Our elders show us long faces in order to hide their stupidity.

I only want to warn you that even the best can do one harm when one isn't ripe enough in years to receive it properly.

Melchior. What good does that do? Moritz. What good does it have to do?——We are fit for nothing more, neither good nor evil.

they raise hell 'cause nobody raised them

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

War is young men dying and old men talking

We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.