Quotes About Youth

He was cocky. It would have been easy not to like him. But he was also kind, and that excused much. Kind, and...a little bit sad, somehow. I didn't understand that about him back then. But we were just kids.

If you have too much good luck when you are young," Mah-mee said, "there won't be any luck left for when you are old.

Japan is like a young woman who thinks too much of herself. She's bound to get herself into trouble.

When you're young, you can excuse many things, hoping they will strengthen with time.

For here, the moment all the spaces along the road between here and there - which the young know are infinite and all others know are not - get used up, that's it.

Had I not spent more than sixty percent of time thinking about sex in my early twenties, I could have reached sixty percent higher than what I am now! The red interest hidden in the black!

En este amor no entré por desvarío, ni lo traté, como otros, con engaños, ni fue por elección de mi albedrío: desde mis tiernos y primeros años a aquella parte m'enclinó mi estrella y aquel fiero destino de mis daños.

That's why children can surprise you. They never fill out the proper forms.

still I think about him more than I don't. I'm I'm careful, I think about him all the time. What would it take to return to the ease of feeling safe and appreciated? The way I did with him. It would take, I decide, being 20. Better to think about my dead sister than a man whose kiss I will remember forever. Even if he vanishes as completely as Rebecca has.

Girls who kiss boys, girls who date them, girls who call them on the phone... that's all they do. There are other things I want to do.

We inculcate in our children the sensibilities of raccoons, a fascination with shiny objects and an appetite for garbage, and then carp about 'the texting generation' as if thirteen- and fourteen-year-olds who couldn't boil an egg are capable of creating a culture. They grow on what we feed them. It has never been otherwise. The only thing that changes is the food.

Killt him a b'ar when he was only three.

It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.

When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.

It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!

You know what your potential was when you were young: you could have done anything! But instead of doing anything, you did nothing.

It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.

I love the sound of a brand-new bottle of coke when you pry the lid off and it starts to fizz. Whenever I hear that sound, I think of roses, and of sitting together with someone you care about and of Romeo and Juliet waking up somewhere and saying to each other, weren't we jerks? And then having all that be over. That's what I think of when I hear the sound of a brand-new bottle of Coke being opened

One day we ran all the way to Jones Beach, and if Mrs. Sidman hadn't sent a bus after us, I think we would have collapsed on the boardwalk and died.

Make good decisions and remember who you are, young Master Jones.' He put his bowler back on. 'You think I'm going to forget who I am?' I said. 'You are entering middle school now,' he said. 'I think it quite likely.' Then he opened his door, folded his umbrella, and got inside again.

The calendar and his glass and the solicitude of his juniors may tell a man that he is old, and he can see for himself that the world and all around him have aged, but secretly he knows that he is still a youth of eighteen or twenty. And what I have said of a man, I have said because a man is what I am. It must be even more true of a woman, to whom youth and beauty and vitality are so much more to be treasured and conserved.

Here I sit with a thirty-six-year-old lust, and a three-year-old dinky.

I hurried after Sam, calling, "You might wait for us!" The last word, though it was but one syllable, covered two octaves, for my voice broke, as it had been doing lately with alarming frequency. Sam turned back with a mischievous grin on his face. "Was that your voice cracking, or were you attempting to yodel?

Every year, some 65 000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.