Quotes About Youth

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets in the future.

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

Innocence is a kind of insanity

Live fast, eat junk, leave a bloated corpse.

there is no man, however wise, who has not at some time in his youth said or done things that are so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly expunge them from his memory if he could. In years to come, I will not be haunted by the guilt of all the good I didn't do.

He had turned the loss of his virginity into a campaign, when all it took was a few sous and five minutes of his time. (pg 21)

For the valour of a youth will often kindle a maid, and the courage of those whose looks are not so winning is often acceptable.

Rock and roll was not just a revolution in musical style; it was a primary embodiment of a transformation in the way many people, in America and elsewhere, lived, felt about, and thought about their lives and their relation to immediate experience.

We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward to but rising sea levels and imminent mass extinctions, then raise a disapproving eyebrow when, in response, they dress in black, cut themselves with razors, starve themselves, gorge themselves, or kill one another.

Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.

Twelve!!! Twelve years old!!? When you lost your virginity, you were twelve???' 'Yeah.' 'Twelve??' Rimmer stared into the fire. 'Well, you can't have been a full member of the golf club, then.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths-your abilities and your failings.

A heart that loves is always young.

The heart that loves is always young.

Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.

If I'd said that to my sensible, smutty, twelve-year-old self, he would have laughed until he hemorrhaged

The things you loved as a boy, you want them around you when you're an old man. The Marvins, Black River, Dreamgarden.

Anakin: "You look…different." Tahiri: "Older maybe? I'm fourteen now. Last week." Anakin: "Happy birthday." Tahiri: "You should have thought of it then, but thanks anyway. Dummy.

and it's the creation of Miss Virginia Rappe, a young woman who has lifted fashion designing to the plane of fine art.

I have always been dismayed by the West's failure—or unwillingness—to recognize that establishing secular schools that offer children a balanced and nonextremist form of education is probably the cheapest and most effective way of combating this kind of indoctrination.

The older I get, the more I appreciate my childhood. It was paradise.

Maybe that's all growing up is. Knowing in real time that you don't know anything.

The only way that I have seen to keep teenagers out of one another's arms is to give them a bigger, more wonderful goal to offset all the distractions common to their youth. For a young man, that goal should include preparing for a delightful and profitable career, doing something he really enjoys doing. For a young woman, it includes preparing to be the ideal wife, mother and administrative assistant such a passionate and goal-oriented young man will need

They weren't quite in their teens, yet their faces had the early trappings of apathy.