Quotes About Youth

Tenía diecisiete años y la vida en los labios»

We'll get to the adult by having recourse to his frustration. As life advances and we have to give up the hopes, dreams, and desires of our youth, we acquire a growing sense of being a victim of the world and of other people. There is always someone else to blame for our misfortunes or failures, someone we wish to exclude. Embracing a doctrine that will turn this grudge and this victim mentality into something positive provides comfort and strength.

Dovevamo ancora imparare che il Diavolo ha creato la gioventù per farci commettere i nostri errori e che Dio ha istituito la maturità e la vecchiaia per consentirci di pagarne il prezzo.

Pasada la primera juventud, empieza el segundo periodo, en el que uno se da cuenta de la fragilidad de la propia vida y lo que en un principio es una simple inquietud va creciendo en el interior como un mar de dudas e incertidumbres que te acompañan durante el resto de tus días.

El día menso pensado cumpliré treinta años y me daré cuenta de que cada día me parezco menos a la persona que quería ser cuando tenía quince.

Scavy laughs. "It could have been worse," he says. "We could have grown old together. Got married. Had kids. Worked on the docks for shit pay." "Ewww…" Popcorn says.

Like all children of that era, they had been diligently warned about strange men, but it never crossed their young minds to fear a woman.

A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it.  It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.

Brian looked at Michele and shrugged. Michele shook her head back at him. They both looked at Jo Dee. Here they were on the verge of finding the head, Michele pondered, and they were at the mercy of a ten-year-old. Have you got that item covered? she asked Jo Dee, hopefully.

As Mother headed the car for the highway, she said, You two sure got quiet in the back seat. I thought you'd be telling Jo Dee and Brian good-bye all the way across the bridge. Michele and Michael giggled. We are, they said, as they perched on their knees facing out the back window. They each gave the skull and crossbones sign and Jo Dee and Brian returned it.

Papa, their grandfather, was taking them so they didn't have to leave a car and "pay through the nose." He liked to be frugal with his money. Grant thought of someone paying a parking bill through their nose, and snickered. Papa was always saying things that Grant didn't understand yet.

From Cherish Tomorrow ... "I want you," she said softly. His jaw became rigid with disapproval. "I'm too damned old for you." "You're perfect." She touched the hardness of one cheek with loving fingers. "You're too young for me!" She shrugged. "I'll get older."

She wanted love, adventure, and wild, fierce emotions that would batter her, as storms battered the island. I am thirteen, Christina thought, I am ready. I want it all.

The only good things about his eighteenth year were the things he hadn't done: He hadn't murdered anybody or sold drugs.

When you were steadily dating a boy, as she was Reeve, and this was known to everybody, it freed you up to be friends with boys.

Brian was only thirteen. He was asleep by one A.M.

Seventh grade had a full complement of creeps, weirdos, future criminals, and nerds.

Janie and Jodie looked at him as if he were an out-of-date computer chip.

Caroline B. Cooney

No boy to swagger down the hall with his arm around her, boasting with his walk that he dated this girl.

It's an old picture," said Stephen. "She's in her thirties now. I don't think she's pretty anymore.

He'd rehearsed in his mind the greeting he would give, the posture he would have, the extent to which he would let the kids hanging around see what was happening between them.

There is really nothing more unattractive than the sight of a young woman displaying a repulsive amount of arm.

Nicholas, who had never seen the willingness to embrace septicemia as one of the more obvious qualities a young actor might find useful, jibbed at this robust assertion. "There.