Quotes About Youth

Young people often struggle with pointless pursuits until they realize for themselves that they are pointless. And that, in fact, is the point.

I was a scrawny, knock-kneeded little waif at seven with tangles in my hair and no acting training (in fact, with little formal schooling at all), but Peter took me on. He'd later say that it was my scrappy attitude that got me the job.

It was a wonderful feeling to be grown and yet young. To be married but not settled. To be tied down yet free.

Maybe that's what innocence is, having no way to predict the pain of the future.

I can't say whiskey made her beautiful. Davina wasn't a PYT any more than I was a young executive. But I used to be, and she used to be; something of it was left in us both, I think. Davina was everything I ever missed, transformed into warm brown flesh.

I had been in kindergarten when I figured out that I wasn't pretty. That is the worst thing about being a little kid; nobody is shy about letting you know these things.

When you are young you believe the world is all yours, glorious and exhilarating and fascinating and full of promise and trumpets and drums and marches and new worlds," said Charles. "We don't ask ourselves what we are living for then. We know. But we forget, later, or it all seems a foolish dream.

Lloro mi perdida juventud, mis esperanzas y mis sueños, el espectro de una promesa muerta, los años enguirnaldados en los que yo creí que la vida tenía algún significado. ¿Cómo pueden soportar los otros hombres esta carga?

Aprender cuesta lágrimas, dolor y sufrimiento. Esto es justo porque el hombre no puede comprender a Dios cuando es joven, feliz e ignorante. Solo puede conocer a Dios por medio del dolor propio y del de los demás.

Una hoja seca de roble, larga y amarillenta, cayó del árbol y fue a posarse sobre el seno izquierdo de la joven, destacando en la blancura de su vestido como una salpicadura de sangre. Estaba ligeramente húmeda y se movía rítmicamente

Only in love is there a real springtime, she would sadly reflect. Only love makes us immortal and immune to living; only in love is there youth and hope. Without it, we are blasted trees in an ashy forest where nothing moves or has a significant being, and where there is no sunset and no rising of the sun, but only a smoky twilight.

Cómo podría recobrar la seguridad y el aplomo de mi juventud? El mundo es demasiado para nosotros. No sólo destruye nuestra juventud, sino nuestra certidumbre.

What most young people don't understand is that SAVING is more important in the beginning than finding the best performing investment. Having the ability to "Pay yourself first," manage your debt load, and determine a vision of what you want to accomplish is vital to your success.

I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.

Live your life like you're 80 looking back on your teenager years. You know if your dad calls you at eight in the morning and asks if you want to go out for breakfast. As a teenager you're like no, I want to sleep. But as an eighty year old looking back you have that breakfast with your dad. It just little things like that, that helped me when I was a teenager in terms of making choices you won't regret.

It was a time of great loneliness. He had a group of friends, and suddenly I had no one and did not understand why. I felt excluded. Some days, the majority was in high school and did not know who to talk to. And that is something really terrible when you're twelve years old.

Remember we were sitting there by the water.

When you're fifteen and somebody tells you they love you, you're gonna believe them. And when you're fifteen don't forget to look before you fall. In your life you'll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team. I didn't know it at fifteen.

We were both young when I first saw you. I close my eyes and the flashback starts. I'm standin' there on a balcony in summer air.

And then you're on your very first date and he's got a car and you're feeling like flyyyyyyyin

Wasn't it easier in your firefly-catchin' days? And everything out of reach, someone bigger brought down to you Wasn't it beautiful runnin' wild 'til you fell asleep? Before the monsters caught up to you?

All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

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