Quotes About Youth

I was eleven years old with menarche barreling down on me like a speeding bloodmobile.

Hay un tipo de mujeres y de hombres jóvenes y fuertes que quieren dar su vida por una causa. La publicidad hace que compren ropas y coches que no necesitan. Generaciones y generaciones han desempeñado trabajos que odiaban para poder comprar cosas que en realidad no necesitan.

A condom is the glass slipper of our generation.

Kid…" I'd say, "Don't say I didn't warn you.

Con todo, uno puede ser un chaval que se la está cascando y al cabo de un momento ya nunca podrá ser abogado.

Young people want mirrors. Older people want art. If I couldn't see myself, my world, in Cheever or Gatsby, I rejected them.

As young people, she says, we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of the world.

Mädchen kriegen Titten und vergessen, wie klug und mutig sie einmal waren. Auch Jungen haben ihre eigene Art von Intelligenz und Humor, aber kaum kriegen sie ihre erste Erektion, verlieren sie den Verstand und laufen die nächsten sechzig Jahre als komplett Schwachsinnige durch die Welt. Für beide Geschlechter ist die Pubertät so etwas wie eine Eiszeit der Dummheit.

hope is just another phase you'll grow out of. Who

The girl in 8G has no faith in herself, Marla shouts, and she's worried that as she grows older, she'll have fewer and fewer options.

Every day: Wear sunblock. Cover your gray. Don't go insane. Eat less fats and sugars. Do more sit-ups. Don't start forgetting stuff. Trim the hair in your ears. Take calcium. Moisturize. Every day. Freeze time to stay in one place forever. Do not get frigging old. She

It's the mark of a very, very young soul," Mr. Whittier used to say, "to try and fix the world. To try and save anyone from their ration of misery.

The way you can move from city to city and always find a Catholic church, the same Mass said everywhere, no matter what foster place the kid was sent, he could always find the Internet. The truth was, if Christ had laughed on the cross, or spat on the Romans, if he'd done anything more than just suffer, the kid would've liked church a lot more.

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away. The condom, I mean. Not thestranger.

Afterword) Years [after the book became a success], a young man pulled me aside before a book event. He said he loved how in Fight Club I wrote about waiters tainting food. He asked me to sign a book and said he worked in a five-star restaurant where they monkey with celebrities' food all the time. "Margaret Thatcher," he said, "has eaten my sperm." He held up one hand, fingers spread, and said, "At least five times.

Da giovani cerchiamo qualcosa che ci rallenti e ci tenga intrappolati in un posto abbastanza a lungo da poter spingere lo sguardo sotto la superficie delle cose. Questo primo disastro è una vaccinazione

My name's Mapo," the boy says. "Mesa Jar Jar.

Grade school – elementary and up – is like being dropped in a dunk tank filled with starving piranha.   And they never get full.

Felicity Jenkins is barely a girl. She's more like a wolverine in a dress.

I was a lot braver when I was eight.

Was this what it meant to grow up, this vast loneliness?

Death and his zealous minions—dread, despair, disease—can find you anywhere at all, and the armor plate of youth will no longer protect you.

he was playing on the climbing structure by himself—or "by his own," as the children sometimes charmingly put it.

We wouldn't be proper children if we didn't disregard our parents' most vital instruction.