Quotes About Youth

Saving and pinching to get married, you're losing the best time of your life.

I am putting old heads on your young shoulders,' Miss Brodie had told them at the time.

The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)

But now they were all fifteen, there was a lot they did not tell each other.

You know, Sandy said, these are supposed to be the happiest days of our lives. Yes, they are always saying that, Jenny said. They say, make the most of your schooldays because you never know what lies ahead of you.

I have frequently told you, and the holidays just past have convinced me, that my prime has truly begun. One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

If anyone comes along," said Miss Brodie, "in the course of the following lesson, remember that it is the hour for English grammar. Meantime I will tell you a little of my life when I was younger than I am now, though six years older than the man himself.

Ah, McAllister laughed, free thinkers at seventeen!

Kopar goncalar? henüz vakit varken bugün Anlamazs?n zaman nas?l kanatlan?r, uçar gider O gonca sana gülücükler saçarken bugün Gelince yar?n, sarar?r solar, boynunu büker.

Era Lo, semplicemente Lo al mattino, ritta nel suo metro e quarantasette con un calzino solo. Era Lola in pantaloni. Era Dolly a scuola. Era Dolores sulla linea tratteggiata dei documenti. Ma tra le mie braccia era sempre Lolita.

I don't feel old. I just feel like someone young who has something wrong with him.

Oh, yes he does. He's a scientist, and they know everything. Religion is crap, declared Listen. You're the most obnoxious little brat I've ever met. Both of you be quiet

Oh my past! It's such a long time ago now.

Nobody ought to write books before they're thirty. I hate precocity.

It is unfair' was a perpetual cry of the Radletts when young. The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

No thanks, darling,' said Héloïse. 'I'm not old enough to marry yet. But when I am grown up I'm going to be either a duchess like Mummy or a tart like Amabelle. Nothing in between for me. Only,' she added jauntily, 'there are rather few eligible dukes about so it almost looks as though –

There they are, held like flies in the amber of that moment -- click goes the camera and on goes life, the minutes, the days, the years, the decades, taking them further and further from that happiness and promise of youth . . ..

With the onset of World War I and the deaths of thousands of young men, a new generation of spiritualists appeared. One of the most prominent was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes detective series, whose pro-spiritualist book New Revelation was published in 1917.

Walking away barefoot on the soft loam, with mist rising in ribbons all around her, Etty tucked the year's first violets into her hair.

Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the morning, put on their Levi's and Nikes, grab their caps and backpacks, and Sony personal CD players and head for school.

Like so much of cool hunting, Hilfiger's marketing journey feeds off the alienation at the heart of America's race relations: selling white youth on their fetishization of black style, and black youth on their fetishization of white wealth.

When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other. When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?

Los dibujos animados y los anuncios de las hamburgueserías hablan a los niños con una voz tan seductora, que los padres no pueden competir con ella.