Quotes About Youth

Over the years, we have invested much in our public persona: the self we developed during our teens and young adult years that reflects our own hopes of who we wanted to become. This is the self that developed from the expectations of others, the self that got confused with our "roles.

The distant threat of eternal damnation pales in comparison to the immediate gratification of corrupting young skin.

She smiles and slips her arm through his. Her tread is light and bouncy and I can almost see the ghost of her cheerleader's ponytail bobbing at the back of her head.

You told us once not to be in such a hurry to grow up, but I don't see any way we could have avoided it. There was always someone out there ready to carve away another chunk of our innocence. Maybe because theirs was already gone and they couldn't stand the sight of our ignorant happiness. Because that's what innocence is, you know. A blissful oblivion of what's coming, of what you'll lose and what you'll gain, and what kind of person you'll grow up to be.

She remembered once, years back, she and Deen had snuck away on a Changing night and made a bed in the high grass of the prairie, with their blankets and pillows. When they'd woken up, there had been a mouse, chewing on the pillow between them, and Deen had screamed so loud that Jinny's ears rang.

When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

The best thing about dreams is that youth holds on to them.

Who ends up with their first real boyfriend? Yeah, no one. - Courtney

Everyone know that you should never wreck your life for a boy, and especially not one that you meet while you're in high school. Seriously, everyone knows it. You never hear someone say, "Oh, wow, you're seventeen and you really like him? That's great, you should do whatever it takes to get him, even if it means wrecking your whole like.

Everyone knows that you should never wreck your life for a boy, and especially not one that you meet while you're in high school.

When I got to the house about an hour ago, James took one look at me and said, "Damn, girl, your parents put out some good product." I think it was a compliment, but I'm not quite sure.

Pretty young for a waiter, aren't you?" "I'm older than I look," Clancy assured her. "You better be because you look about nine." Clancy decided he did not like this woman.

I have little sister Lola, she is small and very funny.

You shut up. I'm older and I'm not going to stay at your palace of decadence and deviance." --Brody to Erin.

Young? Yes. He probably had wrenches older than she was.

This was when I was a teenager and thought I could rewrite any script. Now I'm grown and know that very few of us get to become the people we thought we'd be when we were kids.

There's silence for a long moment as we all watch him go: then, like air whizzing out of a balloon, we all deflate. No more excitement for us. The hot boy has left the building.

It always made me sad that there were kids who didn't have homes.

The point of life is not to be a young girl forever, unless you're particularly vapid and stupid... There ain't nothing happening on a roll of white paper

She ran off singing One Direction like a screaming baby, 'n' I was like: 'OMG, REALLY?

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.

My angel-boy is close now, as in five-feet-away close. There's no way I'm going to burst into song in front of him. But then the contrary part of me says, you're going to let a boy keep you from singing out loud? Sing, sister! Sing! So I do, and my angel-boy turns his head.

You should be out stirring up trouble with your friends, not bothering with all them books you read. You know it's them books what make you talk funny.

Henrietta Swanson: "She was voted young lady most likely to become charming." Sheriff Taylor: "Well, say now. Becoming charming - that is something to look forward to, ain't it.