Quotes About Youth

Jade approached the group of boys slowly. There were five of them, four sitting with their shoulders angled toward the fifth, who stood with one foot in the bucket of a swing. If you check the body posture, you can always find the ringleader, he thought.

She was only fifteen! What is the matter with these kids today? Can't they wait to have sex until they get their driver's license and can go somewhere?

Only in the campfire-stoked stories of Boy Scouts, bedtime tales baby-sitters employ to frighten bratty charges, or in the sweet delight of grandpas who never grew up, would the stories live on.

At nineteen, one lives in the utter idolatry, therefore the extreme superstition, of sex. Monstrously exaggerated tales about sexual feats, which we listen to greedily, determine our expectations. The disappointments are correspondingly great.

The children's happy cries rise and fall in the evening light as imperfect and irrevocable as the past, and he stands in the yard of his father's house, waiting, poised motionless on the frontier of the future, until it is too dark to see.

Many young men's more immediate and important problems were abuse from their superior, on top of their material privations. Perhaps nothing more could have been expected of a political system founded on mass murder and preserved with oppression.

Seeking to boost the number of young believers, the Church has successfully lobbied to make classes about Russian Orthodoxy mandatory in state schools.

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

I must admit, I was born at an early age.

All geniuses die young.

Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck's terrible.)

Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.

I wish I'd been a Hell-raiser when I was 30 years old. I tried when I was 50 but I always got sleepy.

Everyone is the age of their heart.

There is not a single person I have met in my lifetime who is comfortable talking about death. It's the biggest downside to our youth-centric culture. Death is a bummer, so let's not talk about it. Let's hide it away and hope it never strikes close to home.

In our youth, we may have ridiculed the cost-of-living-index family, with their house, two cars, and two kids, but today we are pro-family. We have seen the damage done by the previous generation and have doubled our efforts when it comes to caring for our families. Our children come first.

That's the problem, isn't it? Our youth enamored society hides death from us, makes us believe that we will live forever," Jack asserted, rather forcefully. "We don't want to see death. We even hide old people so that we don't have to be reminded of our own mortality. In other cultures, old age is celebrated, embraced even. Death is a part of life.

Por entonces era todavía joven; conocía poco los hombres y la historia: me había tomado en serio lo que me enseñaban en la Universidad.

And now comes the summer of violence And my youth is as dead as the springtime O Sun it is the time of fiery Reason.

Overhead in the Paris sky Two airplanes fought it out one day And one of them was my whole youth The other was my days to come

We are young, but We already know that in life's great game those who are most unhappy are those who haven't taken the risk to be happy. And I don't want to be one of those

Pourquoi croit-on que derrière un beau visage se cache obligatoirement une belle âme?Pourquoi vit-on à une époque ou tout le monde veut être jeune et svelte alors que, après un certain age le combat est perdu d'avance?

Leurs regards se croisèrent et dans les yeux de son cadet il discerna ce qu'il avait déjà remarqué dans les yeux de certains patients: la tristesse de ceux qui n'ont jamais guéri de leur enfance.