Quotes About Youth

Une porte s'ouvrit. Une jeune fille entra. Le printemps entrait avec elle.

Le lycée ne fut plus qu'un immense vaisseau bouillonnant de la joie furieuse de dix mille enfants qui venaient de retrouver leur jeunesse.

After a time, it seemed that the world inside the books became my world. So when I thought of my childhood, it was dandelion wine and ice cream on a summer porch, like Ray Bradbury, and catching catfish with Huck Finn. My own memories receded and the book memories became the real memories, far more than the outside, far more even than in here.

Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.

If our body is a perfect expression of our thought about body, and if our thought about body is that it's condition has everything to do with inner image and nothing to do with time, then we don't have to be impatient for being too young or frightened of being too old.

Fletcher Lynd Seagull was still quite young, but already he knew that no bird had ever been so harshly treated by any Flock, or with so much injustice.

Jos oda buvo lygi, ?degusi - riešutmedžio spalvos, ir nesimat? jokios raukšlel?s, nieko, iš ko gal?tum nusp?ti, kas ji tokia; ji buvo tokia jauna, kad dar nesp?jo sukurti savo veido.

Freddy, forty is the end of being young. Well, actually thirty's the end of being young forty is where you stop fooling yourself.

Garraty thought that memories were like a line drawn in the dirt. The further back you went the scuffier and harder to see that line got. Until finally there was nothing but smooth sand and the black hole of nothingness that you came out of. The memories were in a way like the road. Here it was real and hard and tangible. But that early road, that nine in the morning road, was far back and meaningless.

This girl's a prisoner of her time and her age, the same as anyone else, which means that all of this is perfectly serious to her.

Ich hatte Angst«, sagte er. »Leute, die keine haben, sterben jung«

He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.

You've got some 'Star-Spangled' nails in your coffin, kid. That's what they've done for you, son.

I was too young and naive then to link up the meaning of those ridiculingly defunct tennis shoes that I was forced to wear with the reality that we were on Welfare and Welfare was not designed to provide a child with any pride in its existence.

I was a child, then, though now I look like somebody else.

PETER. Egad — and so we must — that's impossible. Ah! Master Rowley when an old Batchelor marries a young wife — He deserves — no the crime carries the Punishment along with it.

Boys raised in a single-mother household have disproportionately higher crime rates and mental health issues. 73% of adolescent murderers grew up without a father.

26 of the last 27 school shooters came from fatherless homes.

Shouldn't children be taught critical, sceptical thinking from an early age? Shouldn't we all be taught to doubt, to weigh up plausibility, to demand evidence?

children should be taught not so much what to think as how to think.

James Dobson, founder of today's infamous 'Focus on the Family' movement,fn1 is equally acquainted with the principle: 'Those who control what young people are taught, and what they experience – what they see, hear, think, and believe – will determine the future course for the nation.'78

He was a highly qualified and genuinely promising young scientist, well on his way to achieving his dream of teaching science and doing research at a proper university.

Those who control what young people are taught, and what they experience – what they see, hear, think, and believe – will determine the future course for the nation.

I simply would not accede to being forced into this, and would frequently be kept out of classes because of irreverent comments and mocking this religious stuff. Frankly, it stayed with me to this day. In fact, don't get me going. I'm almost as bad as Richard Dawkins on this issue.