Quotes About Youth

Lucas spoke with the San Francisco Examiner: "Someday, [Lucas] predicts, every ten-year old child will be able to buy a kit and shoot a movie. 'Think what this will do to our civilization. Movies will replace the pen. Everybody is going to be making movies.

But for all his admiration of the student's intelligence and ability to internalize Russell's arguments, he is dismayed by the young man's willingness to accept those arguments without question. This is a great insight into the revolutionary ethos, especially insofar as it is found in the minds of the young. The college campus rebel bravely questions the existence of God or long-standing societal customs but never thinks to question that which he seeks to replace them with.

It came to him in the night sometimes with a sudden appalling shock that the boys he was fighting were boys he had grown up with. The war had come as a nightmare in which you chose your nightmare side. Once chosen, you put your head down and went on to win.

What can ever equal the memory of being young together?

At an early age, it seems to be a part of the human condition to rebel against some type of authority as our perceptions of the world change with experience.

Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age, and to get drunk till forty; but, after forty, gives them leave to please themselves, and to mix a little liberally in their feasts the influence of Dionysos, that good deity who restores to younger men their gaiety and to old men their youth...fit to inspire old men with mettle to divert themselves in dancing and music; things of great use, and that they dare not attempt when sober.

This emperor was arbiter of the whole world at nineteen, and yet would have a man to be thirty before he could be fit to determine a dispute about a gutter.

a child's disquiet is as potent as a damp fart.

God preserve us from fuddle-headed young men who want money for building cloud-castles!

Maybe… they are stocking high schools across the country with hot young librarians as part of a massive literacy initiative.

Maybe it's not even his master plan; maybe it's, like, the American Library Association's master plan, and they are stocking high schools across the country with hot young librarians as part of a massive literacy initiative.

I find it funny when people try to brag about being younger than me...like having lived less is an accomplishment. Makes me want to pat them on the head, lol. I'm comfortable with who I am.

Whenever I feel old—which seems to be happening more and more often these days—Alice tells me to imagine taking a picture of myself, then to imagine myself twenty years in the future looking at that picture, thinking how young I looked, hoping that I had enjoyed or at least recognized my youth. That usually does the trick

The girls Iris went through wound up cracked vases no longer fit for flowers, leaky dust collectors. After Iris, girls left town or started fucking boys. She ruined everyone.

I'm A Queer Poet Too! She stressed queer not because she walked around identifying as a queer poet but so that the youth understood she would fuck her.

They were twenty-seven already, in no time at all they'd be thirty, terrifying. No one knew what would happen then. Michelle couldn't imagine anything more than writing zine-ish memoirs and working in bookstores.

We should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it. As individuals, we can make a difference, whether it is to probe the secrets of Nature, to clean up the environment and work for peace and social justice, or to nurture the inquisitive, vibrant spirit of the young by being a mentor and a guide.

Algo se marchitó de repente dentro de su ser: quizá la fe en la perennidad de la infancia.

Él todavía estaba en condiciones de decidir, pero como solamente tenía 11 años, era su padre quien decidía por él. ¿Por qué, Señor, por qué el mundo se organizaba tan rematadamente mal?

Todo se le vuelve decir que la infancia es un tesoro, pero la vida es un desatino, y los niños no la disfrutan en su afán de hacerse hombres.

Sana : – Tanto 2 o 3 mesi passano in fretta! Mamma : – (narrando) Si separano tranquillamente, dicendosi che due o tre mesi passeranno in fretta… Ma quei bambini non sanno… …che per loro il tempo scorre moooolto più lentamente che per gli adulti.

Las pasiones no son sino ideas en su desarrollo inicial: son atributo de la juventud del corazón, y tonto sería quien pensara que han de inquietarle toda la vida: mochos ríos tranquilos nacen como cascadas tumultuosas, pero ninguno llega hasta el mar turbulento y coronado de espuma.

Ce gamin de 20 ans se fit remarquer dès sa tendre enfance, par d'étranges dispositions. C'était un rêveur, un original. Une jeune fille tomba amoureuse de lui ; il la prit, et la vendit à une maison close.

There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last