Quotes About Youth

Sevgilim, çocuklara ÅŸaka yap?lmaz. Ben de bir çocuktum.

I ragazzi, le donne, il mondo, non sono mica cambiati. Non portano più il parasole, la domenica vanno al cinema invece che in festa, danno il grano all'ammasso, le ragazze fumano - eppure la vita è la stessa, e non sanno che un giorno si guarderanno in giro e anche per loro sarò tutto passato.

Della mia infanzia non mi restava altro che l'estate. Le vie strette che sbucavano nei campi da ogni parte, di giorno e di sera, erano i cancelli della vita e del mondo. Gran meraviglia se un'automobile strombettante, giunta da chissà dove, traversasse il paese, sulla strada maestra e dileguasse chi sa dove verso nuove città, verso il mare, sconvolgendo ragazzi e polvere

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Della mia infanzia non mi restava altro che l'estate. Le vie strette che sbucavano nei campi da ogni parte, di giorno e di sera, erano i cancelli della vita e del mondo.

Non è bello essere bambini: è bello da anziani pensare a quando eravamo bambini.

The villages he'd played in were all around us, bright and leafy in the sunshine, nests of stars in the night sky.

Chad Davidson

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

We always had 'Vogue' in our house. But, when I was around 12, my Mom finally took me seriously about modeling and put a stack of magazines in front of me, then told me to study all the poses. The ones I loved the most were in 'Vogue.'

My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily.

I would take a free and hopeful breath. It was settled. Fear would no longer be the weakness that undid me. I was seventeen and unsophisticated, and thought I could dig about in my soul for the mettle I needed, and that it would be enough.

You might think that a boy is just your friend, but then if you find out that maybe he likes you (in a boyfriend way), everything changes instantly. (47)

I'm not a role model.

The loss of innocence, and the arrival of knowingness, can become an addiction.

The teachers complain that the students today are all lazy, ignorant, and stupid. But the truth is that you're smarter than they are. You're not even old enough to drive and you already know that none of this matters.

When did swearing become so easy? You still would never swear in front of your parents or most adults, but when you're with your friends it's like every fifth word. Why couldn't learning Spanish be that easy?

Think When did it go wrong? The break-in? No, before that. The party? That was part of it, but that wasn't when it started. Zack? Of course, yeah, it would be easy to say it was Zack. But that's not it, is it? Before Zack. Before Ryan. Before Max and Derrick or that whole thing with the wallet. Before Ashley. Before tenth grade even began. And you're thinking, this can't be it.

Joan Jett at the far left, staring straight into the camera, her eyes dragging me in. Just like the mystery chick at the Stop-N-Go.

And if I could change my peer-driven party-animal self, maybe I could change everything.

We're doing something different tonight," she said, ending the discussion. "We're going to a party up by the campus.

More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.

Sam and Bill and I would cut a hole in a watermelon and fill it with rum so Jimmy didn't know we were drinking. "Boy, you men sure like your watermelon," Jimmy would say.