Quotes About Youth

La imaginación de los muchachos es un corcel, y la curiosidad la espuela que lo aguijonea y lo arrastra a través de los proyectos más imposibles. Movidos

These weren't the tamales of my youth—they were smaller, but that was okay.

Recently, I went to a disco with friends, and all the young people were saying, 'Dudamel, we want to go to your concert, but it's impossible because it's sold out.' It's really amazing.

Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.

Happy," said Thomas. "When I grow up, I am going to be happy." Mrs. van Amersfoort was about to pull a book from the shelf, but turned in surprise. She looked at Thomas with a smile and said, "That is a damn good idea. And do you know how happiness begins? It begins with no longer being afraid.

He looked out of the window to think, because without a window he couldn't think. Or Maybe it was the other way round: where there was a window, he automatically started to think. Then he wrote, 'When I grow up, I am going to be happy.

Youth is a struggle, manhood a disappointment, old age a disaster.

I also wish I knew why millions of bright American children turn overnight into teenage nerds. The substitution of the automobile for the natural body, which our culture has effected in the most evil perversion of humanity since chivalry, is one cause; narcosis by drugs and Dionysian music is another.

Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.

But when did the young people become clever? Isn't that supposed to take time?" Guidanio doesn't smile. "Wisdom does," he says. "People can be clever at any age.

I think that when we're young we often have the sense that what we do when faced with a choice will define our lives forever. This can be untrue, sometimes amusingly so, but not always.

You can do impulsive, reckless things completely sober. Or, well, I could, when I was young.

We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived.

It started as a youth movement, with educated disgruntled Europeans alienated by the competitive market (or neo-liberal) approach of the European Union project that was urging them on to a life of jobs, flexibility and faster economic growth. But their Eurocentric origins soon gave way to internationalism, as they saw their predicament of multiple insecurities linked to what was happening to others all over the world. Migrants became a substantial part of the precariat demonstrations.

One day you look around and realize everyone in New York is younger than you are.

I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride.

I said 'I was imagining you as a little boy, and as a teenager, and as an old man.' He said: 'I was looking at you and thinking how young you look, and how old at the same time.

It was Mabbie without the grammar school gates. And Mabbie was all of seven. And Mabbie was cut from a chocolate bar. And Mabbie thought life was heaven.

We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.

Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.

Elveszett a jöv?… Furcsa, mi? Ilyenkor fellázad a hús, de most nem fog… már az se lesz… Ez így fog rohadni szépen, fokozatosan, amíg nem születnek ifjak, és újrakezdik a forradalmat, ugyanolyan felemásan, hülyén, elvakultan, átgondolatlanul, félszegen, és majd belemennek a kompromisszumokba, mi mást is tehetnének… és megy tovább a tinglitangli…

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.

Acaso la juventud es sólo eso: un trance de creer, un asentimiento a la promesa. Entonces todo es una promesa que el mundo ocupa luego con su verdad.