Quotes About Youth

But then I was young, and to be young means to undertake to demolish the world and to have the gall to wish to erect a new and better one in its place.

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My principle anguish and source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh...and my soul is the arena where these two armies have clashed and met.

I feel that I'm losing the most beautiful years of my life.

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were

The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young.

The foundation of all free government and all social order must be laid in families and in the discipline of youth. Young persons must not only be furnished with knowledge, but they must be accustomed to subordination and subjected to the authority and influence of good principles. It will avail little that youths are made to understand truth and correct principles, unless they are accustomed to submit to be governed by them.

Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history of his own country.

In fact, most of what they're calling crime is a kid caught with a joint in his pocket. Why do people think of that as the problem?

Una reforma de los primeros niveles de la educación podía provocar cambios sociales significativos.

There are plenty of young people who are appalled by the behaviour of the older generation, rightly, and are dedicated to trying to stop this madness before it consumes us all. Well, that's the hope for the future.

one element in the social revolution will be "that intelligent and truly noble part of the youth which, though belonging by birth to the privileged classes, in its generous convictions and ardent aspirations, adopts the cause of the people.

What I hear as noise is perceived as music by my teenage grandchildren, at a fairly primitive level of perceptual experience. And

checked out the mirror to see if I looked older, or sadder, or wiser. I didn't; I just looked tired.

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, the extraordinary novel that changed my life and the lives of so many other young women in the 1960s. I have the paperback copy I read at the time, and it's dog-eared, epiphany after epiphany marked so that I could easily refer back to them. Does anyone read The Golden Notebook nowadays? I

The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it?

According to my dermatologist, the neck starts to go at forty-three, and that's that...The neck is a dead give-away. Our faces are lies and our necks are the truth. You have to cut open a redwood tree to see how old it is, but you wouldn't have to if it had a neck.

I'm old. I am sixty-nine years old. I'm not really old, of course. Really old is eighty. But if you are young, you would definitely think that I'm old.

You can put makeup on your face and concealer under your eyes and dye on your hair, you can shoot collagen and Botox and Restylane into your wrinkles and creases, but short of surgery, there's not a damn thing you can do about your neck. The neck is a dead giveaway. Our faces are lies and our necks are the truth. You have to cut open a redwood tree to see how old it is, but you wouldn't have to if it had a neck.

There was nothing like a Saturday - unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation. That of course was all the Saturdays of your life rolled into one big shiny ball.

Did they know - the young and fearless - what a miraculous thing it was to have all of anyone?

Not enough. Margo rose and tucked the towel in place. Come on, let's go stuff her in a locker. For old time's sake.

He was a wild one as a lad, and there's a look about him that says he could be again. Kathy sighed. I've always had a soft spot for a wild heart in a man. Have you no sweetheart in the States then, Jude? No. She thought briefly of William. Had she ever considered her husband her sweetheart? No one special. If they're not special, what would the point be?

Studies show adolescent males often make decisions based on sex. Many fail to grow out of it.