Quotes About Youth

I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.

La juventud persiste hasta mucho después de que uno ha dejado de ser joven. El amor por la vida permanece indefinidamente, con menos probabilidad de ser amado, menos habilidad de amar, y con el aguijón de la pasión tan acuciante como siempre. El solterón envejecido no es tan distinto de un viejo halcón.

I confused growing up with settling down.

It was the 1950s, and I confused growing up with settling down.

Like so many daughters who don't yet know that a female fate is not a personal fault, I told myself as a young woman, "I'm not going to be anything like my mother".

It wasn't the victory of one man or the death of another. It was the death of the future, and of our youth, because we might be rather old before the conservers left and the compassionate men came back. Saturday.

campuses not only help create social justice movements, they need them.

Now I see a few campuses that are honest

How do I love campuses? Let me count the ways. I

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

Someone told me that I am still too young to do it. I said that that is my biggest motivation.

Ach, daß die Freundin meiner Jugend dahin ist, ach, daß ich sie je gekannt habe!—ich würde sagen: du bist ein Tor! Du suchst, was hienieden nicht zu finden ist! Aber ich habe sie gehabt, ich habe das Herz gefühlt, die große Seele, in deren Gegenwart ich mir schien mehr zu sein, als ich war, weil ich alles war, was ich sein konnte.

It isn't really important to decide when you are very young just exactly what you want to become when you grow up. It is much more important to decide on the way you want to live. If you are going to be honest with yourself and honest with your friends, if you are going to get involved in causes which are good for others, not only for yourselves, then it seems to me that that is sufficient, and maybe what you will be is only a matter of chance.

Wonder shows in the light of our eyes. Without it, they become dull and old.

The attentive, caring, and wise voice ofa supportive adult gets internalized and becomes part of the youth's own voice. —National Research Council

To save a girl is to save generations!

Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is more than the end of the rainbow. Love is the security for which children weep, the yearning of youth, the adhesive that binds marriage, and the lubricant that prevents devastating friction in the home; it is the peace of old age, the sunlight of hope shinning through death.

as long as our dreams outweigh our memories, America will be forever young

Eight-foot high posters in plate glass windows advertised the latest fashions: for young girls the look was crack whore; for young boys, indecisive pimp; for teenagers of both sexes, the image was androgynous vampire, expensively accessorised.

He came to chat with me the day of my being discharged, advising that I not stay at the dog fight until the last dog was dead. I was a kid and made little counsel. Now that I am a bigger kid, I see the value--belatedly--added. Yet I also see the loss of life in the protecting, first of all, of oneself. Better to give oneself away. Dead f*ck the dog and so on.

The Roman philosopher Cicero said of the discipline of reading: No other pleasure suits every occasion, every age or every place. But the study of letters is the food of youth, the delight of old age, a delight at home and no burden abroad; it stays with us at night, and goes with us on our travels, near and far.

I've known a boy. I've measured beauty. What more do I want?

His eyes were curiously deep, and a warm, gray color. His mouth was thin-lipped, but a little wide and altogether friendly. His light, straight brown hair was already receding at the temples. He wore it clipped short, and he would be nearly bald before his thirties were out, but since he was not the sort of man to whom good looks are necessary, this would make little difference.