Quotes About Youth

Today there is a strong smell of blood in the air. Literary anti-Semitism forges the moral weapon for murder. Sturdy and honest lads will take care of the rest.

It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.

Era una giornata meravigliosa: di quelle così splendidamente romane che perfino uno statale di ottavo grado, ma vicino a zompà ner settimo, be', puro quello se sente allacciasse ar core un nun socché, un quarche cosa che rissomija a la felicità

In his youth Albert Einstein spent a year loafing aimlessly. You don't get anywhere by not 'wasting' time- something, unfortunately, that the parents of teenagers tend frequently to forget.

You don't get anywhere by not 'wasting' time – something, unfortunately, which the parents of teenagers tend frequently to forget.

In his youth Albert Einstein spent a year loafing aimlessly. You don't get anywhere by not 'wasting' time – something, unfortunately, which the parents of teenagers tend frequently to forget. He

Only someone in his twenties can take such delirious propositions seriously. You have to be a twentysomething to believe that they can be turned into a theory of the world.

Anyone who had died young after a happy childhood had won a great victory, since he would be forever spared the discovery of what sort of place the world really is. Others must look forward to death by defeat - their bodies gone, their world destroyed.

I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

Nearly half of foster children in the U.S. become homeless when they turn eighteen

When I say something like "back when I was in high school," I usually mean: "back when I was supposed to be in high school.

who, from what I could tell, was a few years younger than I. He was sitting on the steps of the porch next to Davy Gude, another Vineyard boy, whose parents

When I was young, I was sold on winning. I was always serious on the court. As I got older, I realized that it was just a basketball game. Just go out there and have fun.

The young Efrainite poets got around the city on foot, or by bus ...Some of the Efrainites were belligerent and used to turn up at literary events to jeer, pass judgment ...

Yo recuerdo siempre que cuando tenía cinco años dije a mi madre que estaba deseando ser mayor para salir sola a la calle. Me contestaron que mientras más mayor fuese más acompañada iría siempre. Para mí esta contestación fue horrible. Me acuerdo todavía de la perra que cogí y de lo angustiosa que me pareció la vida en aquel momento

Empecé a seguir - una gota entre la corriente - el rumbo de la masa humana que, cargada de maletas, se volcaba en la salida. Mi equipaje era un maletón muy pesado - porque estaba casi lleno de libros - y lo llevaba yo misma con toda la fuerza de mi juventud y de mi ansiosa expectación.

Aún era yo la criatura encogida y amargada a la que le han roto un sueño.

Llegaba a mi casa, de la que ninguna invitación a un veraneo maravilloso me iba a salvar, de vuelta de mi primer baile en el que no había bailado.

El tiempo transcurre a hurtadillas, disimulando no le vemos andar. Pero de pronto volvemos la cabeza y encontramos imágenes que se han desplazado a nuestras espaldas, fotos fijas, sin referencia de fecha, como las figuras de los niños del escondite inglés, a los que nunca se pillaba en movimiento

I stared in the mirror. Love gone bad showed me a Gorgon. I stared at a dragon. Fire spewed from the mouth of a mountain. And here you come with a shield for a heart and a sword for a tongue and your girls, your girls. Wasn't I beautiful Wasn't I fragrant and young? Look at me now.

Independent freedom loving old hippies and independent freedom loving young eagles.. two of a kind.

Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.

Our regret would not change what had happened, only make our grief for the big laughing youth more bitter.