Quotes About Youth

but I beseech you, as most I may, that you inflict not on her those pangs which you inflicted whilere on her who was sometime yours; for methinketh she might scarce avail to endure them, both because she is younger and because she hath been delicately reared, whereas the other had been in continual fatigues from a little child.

La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate.

When I was young I read almost always to learn; Today, sometimes, I read to forget.

ma la ragazza cantava come uno stornello, perché aveva diciotto anni, e a quell'età se il cielo è azzurro vi ride negli occhi, e gli uccelli vi cantano nel cuore.

ché i giovani hanno la memoria corta, e hanno gli occhi per guardare soltanto a levante; e a ponente non ci guardano altro che i vecchi, quelli che hanno visto tramontare il sole tante volte.

No, young man, I don't envy you or your youth. All that you have to face and suffer is still ahead of you.

moço de dezasseis anos que não sabia nada, mas era precisamente por essa razão que estava mais adaptado ao mundo novo do que ele, que sabia tudo.

Sabe como são os jovens, levam tudo terrivelmente a sério, é a maldição dessa idade.

Se você é jovem, inteligente e se interessa por política, pense bem antes de estudar ciências políticas na universidade. Você deveria se interessar, em vez disso, em estudar matemática ou física. Num segundo momento você poderá entrar na política e terá conhecimentos mais úteis, com aplicações infinitas [...] Pode-se sempre ler livros de história mais tarde, mas não é possível aprender matemática na hora que se quer.

Oggi come l'Isonzo di asfalto azzurro mi fisso nella cenere del greto scoperto dal sole e mi transmuto in volo di nubi Appieno infine sfrenato il solito ragazzo sgomento non batte più il tempo col cuore non ha né tempo né luogo è felice

There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.

In his youth, [he] had believed everything was possible. Then in grief, he believed everything was impossible. And now. . . he felt that when you had lived enough of your life, there was no difference between the two.

A lovely young girl lies on a bed in the dark listening to a fairy tale," I said. "But she's naked and the storyteller's hands are all over her.

The rain had stopped and the sky was absurdly pretty, a single layer of floury cloudlets pinked and peached by the rising sun. Only the juvenile, the mad, and the newly in love noticed. The rest of the city got its head down and ploughed tearily into another day of neurosis.

shoved by shock too young into the truth that nothing meant anything.

You know, when I was a kid waiting on the bus, I remember that was when I imagined my life. I imagined everything that I was gonna be when I grew up and I imagined all of these amazing journeys and amazing people I'd meet. Of course, all of it has kind of come to fruition.

The responsibility to educate the next generation should be solemn. Unlike, say, the obligation to incarcerate people who have inhaled the smoke of the burning leaves of an illegal plant.

I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.

My heart broke a little at her unblemished view of life: She still believed in innocent secrets, the heady rush of a good mystery, and happily ever after... (I wasn't about to disabuse her of those sweet notions.)...Little girls should be allowed to dream.

We have an issue with kids' having unfettered access to the worst the Internet has to offer instead of the best that our communities can provide.

Most young people have rebellious, anti-authoritarian impulses. They don't like being told what, when, or how to do something. It's ironic, then, that many of these same people embrace a system in which there would be far more regulations, many more bureaucrats micromanaging their lives, and far more rules and restrictions on how things can be done.

Every child could be an artist. Every child is an artist until a grown-up tells them they're not.

This is important because so often the path to establishing the confidence and engagement of a young person is through growing their strengths rather than concentrating on what is wrong with them.

For many kids, the Internet is a means of self-actualization. It allows them to explore who they are and who they want to be, but that works only if we're able to be private and anonymous, to make mistakes without them following us.