Quotes About Youth

The second reason is that the subversive decision to pursue FI at a young age, which typically leads to radical lifestyle decisions, self-selects for individuals who are unusually intentional about how they live their lives.

By the early 2000s, however, if you stood on that same street corner, white earbuds would be near ubiquitous. The iPod succeeded not just by selling lots of units, but also by changing the culture surrounding portable music. It became common, especially among younger generations, to allow your iPod to provide a musical backdrop to your entire day—putting the earbuds in as you walk out the door and taking them off only when you couldn't avoid having to talk to another human.

We no longer see Internet tools as products released by for-profit companies, funded by investors hoping to make a return, and run by twentysomethings who are often making things up as they go along. We're instead quick to idolize these digital doodads as a signifier of progress and a harbinger of a (dare I say, brave) new world.

I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

Quienes quieran ser jóvenes cuando sean viejos, deberán ser viejos cuando sean jóvenes. JOHN RAY, 1670

How does the world look, I often found myself wondering, to a young man whose father is his enemy?

I'm not a drug addict. My wild period wasn't about drugs it was about sexual freedom.

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.

The people of Abadan defended the city with empty hands, and our sons and brothers fell to the ground like flowers in the fall. My friend, believe me, today the date palms are broken. Tell me, when will our youth, our date palms, be green again?

Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.

I always tell the girls never take it seriously, if you never take it seriously you never get hurt, if you never get hurt you always have fun, and if you ever get lonely just go to the record store and visit your friends.

Adolescence is a marketing tool.

Isn't what being young is about? Believing secretly that you would be the one person in the history of man who would live forever.

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

My growing was definitely a series of adventures, followed by bumps, bruises, and many scoldings.

Is there some rule that says a young man can't be a handsome prince and a terrible bore all at the same time?

For tomorrow would be different. Still wonderful, yes. But not filled with this strange wonder. You don't have to be grown up to understand the way things change. To understand that a thing can be truly new only once, and precious because it came to you when you did not look for it.

in the future, perhaps as a den for Maja when she was older and wanted her own space. But at the moment it

You'll understand when you're older, Orla, that "givin' a hard time" to a young person is all to a purpose. With every word you speak, every gesture, every impulse you give in to without reflection, you're building your character - and at the end of your life, your character is all you have to show for yourself.

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

Un jovencito melenudo hace versos entre la baraúnda. Está evadido, no se da cuenta de nada; es la única manera de poder hacer versos hermosos. Si mirase para los lados se le escaparía la inspiración. Eso de la inspiración debe ser como una mariposita ciega y sorda, pero muy luminosa; si no, no se explicarían muchas cosas.