Quotes About Youth

This particular wish—the desire to remain a child forever—strikes me as a defining aspect in American life right now: a collective sentiment that imposes itself over the neutrality of facts and context. This narrative is about how we wish the world worked out in contrast to the disappointment that everyday life offers us, and it helps us to shield ourselves from not only the chaos of reality but also from our own personal failures.

Tarla answered the door in a black silk nightgown and robe. Her feet were bare. Her bed hair was mussed. She was beautiful, but he could see a hint of age in her face, as if it were the first time he'd noticed that she was growing older.

Rules are for old men who prefer to walk in the wheel ruts of history

Dune," the Fremen youth said. "Only the Imperials and the Harkonnens call this place Arrakis." "All right," Kynes said. "Dune, then.

You love young ones and babes, I know this. The young will always befriend and admire you...all the young ones of the earth belong to you in friendship. Be good to them. —Breeze, to Sunflash the Mace

Baby Rollo had finally succeeded in diving from the pear tree straight into the center of an oversized sliced apple and wild plum crumble. He sat smiling and eating his way out, a mass of sweet acorn crumbs and sticky fruit.

No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.

I hated being twelve. Back in '65, I just wanted to grow up fast so everything would finally be good, you know? But truth is, life was actually way better back then. Turns out, the older you get... the more everything just turns to shit.

Gert: What... what just happened? Chase: I don't know, but guess who totally stole Cookie Monster's glasses! Gert: Whew, for a second there, I was worried we almost learned something. Chase: Ooo, look at me! I'm a big fluffy nerd!

I was pretty good at picking up new languages when I was little, but it's not like I had superpowers or anything. Kids just have an easier time with words.

What, like you were never a vicious little asshole when you were that age?

Every kid gets programmed by their 'rents, Chase. That doesn't mean they have to do as they're told.

No matter how much freedom they're given, most kids are still glorified props, carefully shuttled from one secure location to the next. We're not children, we're eggs.

On iki ya??nda olmaktan nefret ediyordum. 1965'teyken bir an önce büyümeyi ve sonunda her ÅŸeyin düzelmesini istiyordum, anlars?n ya ? Ama asl?nda hayat çok daha iyiydi. MeÄŸerse yaÅŸland?kça... her ÅŸey iyice boka bat?yormuÅŸ.

I hope there are other animals my age out there. I always wanted to kill a baby goat!

Most of my childhood was spent clinging to the feathers of a dulled arrow blindly fired across a starless night.

The halls are full of kids, scrawny ones and fat ones, cool ones and uncool ones, freaks and jocks, cheerleaders and dogs, burnouts and nerds. It's like Berlin, divided, except there are more walls in this city, and they're better guarded.

I know it sounds strange but it's true. I mean that you're open to life. You're open to being surprised. You're open to being changed by life. Most of us lose that quality in our twenties. I don't know how you've managed to hang on to it, but you have." The music was loud, and the people were loud.

So you can keep going. You can stay young. There's no inevitable law of diminishment: everyone who fades fades for his own reason.

I would have been a lot better off if I'd studied more when I was growing up, y'know. But you know where it all went wrong was the day they started the spelling bee. Because up until that day I was an idiot, but nobody else knew.

The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken. —PLATO

Una de mis historias favoritas es sobre un joven que va a un viejo filósofo y le dice: «La vida es dura». El filósofo responde: «¿En comparación con qué?».

Young men then went to war believing all of the fine stories they had grown up with; and if, in the end, their disillusion was quite as deep and profound as that of the modern soldier, they had to fall farther to reach it.

war is tragedy, it is better to live than to die, young men who go down to dusty death in battle have been horribly tricked.