Quotes About Youth

Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

Kids, man, they're way too honest. They're like mini-alcoholics.

Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.

He thought of his wife, of his son, of his youth. He thought of life. He thought of death and then he thought of life again.

Stalin is dead! Stalin is dead! No school today!" we yelled. "Stalin is dead! No school today..." was a chant to linger in my ears for years to come.

However, at 17 years old, I was ready to face any challenge and tackle any obstacles blocking the road to my dreams. I was ready to take on the world. I was unstoppable. Bygones were bygones. The future, however uncertain it might be, awaited me.

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!

Mathematical problems, or puzzles, are important to real mathematics (like solving real-life problems), just as fables, stories and anecdotes are important to the young in understanding real life

Tanta juventud gozándose en sí misma, abrazados sobre la cama y yo con mi uniforme de niña de las monjas, moviéndome sobre tu cuerpo enfundado en un pantalón blanco, llenándonos de besos cuando todo estaba comenzando.

Children need fairy tales because they can see only black and white.

Whenever a young person encounters trauma, they react to it and they also repeat it. Modeling has elements of identifying with the aggressor. In modeling, you don't resist the dysfunctional mores of your family—you reenact them. You see yourself as you were seen; you internalize bad behavior as normal.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

It never seemed fair that just when you're old enough to do anything you want, you can't. You have to start working, so there's no time. And if there is time, you're not working, so there's no money.

Life can be messy. No doubt, a lot of these kids are living proof. But in spite of their anxieties and their angers, At least- They Are trying to live.

An aging man cannot rewrite his youth but a youth may rewrite his own future.

Age swallows our childhood.

I was a kid who loved to play games. Any kind of game, any kind of ball. Give me a baseball, give me a basketball, give me something I can bounce and throw.

You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.