Quotes About Youth

When you're twenty-three and you fall in love, you tend to think that love will supersede any problems. But no matter how much you love somebody, no matter how desperately you want a relationship to work, life can act as an oxidizer and corrode it to pieces.

He turned and looked up at me with the face of a needy child and the eyes of an ancient shaman.

It was 1984. That year, my true love was John Taylor from Duran Duran.

But everyone falls in love with Holden Caulfield when they're sixteen. They read The Catcher in the Rye and don't feel so alone. The problem is, they get over it. They forget that grief. Or they bury it. I never could.

bolinhos de bacalhau, the delicious codfish fritters cooked on every street corner. The riot of colour that existed everywhere, from the jungle flowers, to the women's stunning dresses, to the frescoes and stained glass windows of the tiny, baroque Chapel of St Rita, where they now stood. All of it made Gunther Hartog feel young again. Young and alive. 'What if Pierpont got wise?' The worry lines deepened on Jeff Stevens's face. 'What if…?

Days, weeks, months, years," said the boy. "Minutes and hours and seconds. I don't know about any of those things.

I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.

A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which I find an inspiring idea...Thus, when we allow ourselves to imagine as we once did, we know, with a sudden jarring clarity, that if we don't go right now, we're never going to do it. And we'll be haunted by our unrealized dreams and know that we have sinned against ourselves gravely.

Todd was everything Tallahassee was looking for: young, handsome, ambitious and completely full of shit.

Church kids took seats around him on the ground. "What else do you have?" "Well," said Serge, putting his left shoe back on. "There's Casey Kasem's American Top Forty. You know where the oldest lyrics ever to be heard on his show came from?" Heads shook. "Book of Ecclesiastes." He stood. "Adapted for the Byrds' mega-hit 'Turn! Turn! Turn!'" "Cool.

Second-grader brings gun to school. Jesus, what ever happened to just sticking out your tongue?

Look forward to the wonderment of growing up, raising a family and driving by the gas station where the popular kids now work.

that Young Irelandism will lead you to." "It may lead me to danger. But it will guard me from dishonor.

a redheaded kid with freckles who looked like a stork but threw like a bull

I already had a lot of friends at school who didn't care about the whole acting thing, so there was no reason for me to not be in school.

Making six-pack abs for no reason doesn't make sense. When you are young, it is possible.

Why should there be a different set of laws for criminals who are juveniles? As far as I am concerned there should be no reason for any leniency.

I thought I would be married with four children when I was 24 because that's what my mother did. But it didn't turn out like that. There's no reason why. It just didn't happen.

Good Charlotte's the first band we've ever been in, and back then, critics didn't matter. There were no rules. There was no one we had to impress.

I remember the absolute, joyous freedom I felt when I first went to college: I had no bedtime, no curfew, no rules - I loved it. I was in charge. I couldn't believe I didn't have to answer to anyone.

That's what really bothered me about high school: There was just no time to do anything other than school.

Indiana wanted to go in a different direction, wanted to go younger, and the Lakers wanted me, so I said, who wouldn't want to be in L.A? That was a no-brainer.

Noah - the Schnappster - he's amazing.

Nobody at fifteen wants anybody to see how goofy their parents are.