Quotes About Youth

But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was born approximately two years after that, and even Sunny who had just passed out of babyhood, was not born yesterday. Neither were you, unless of course I am wrong, in which case, welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.

The last time I saw you, I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle!

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

Moxie gave me a small smile. "Why do you always say that- which here means?" "I'll probably outgrow it," I said.

Like most fourteen-year-olds, she was right-handed, so the rocks skipped farther across the murky water when Violet used her right hand then when she used her left.

They are stupid, aren't they?" Dr. Orwell agreed, as though they were talking about the weather instead of insulting young children.

Any age was a difficult age for someone needing to get through that window.

A young man who asks too much about clothing will find himself the subject of unflattering rumors.

It was a familiar feeling, to be hurrying someplace without really knowing what is going on. When I was a child, this happened all the time, because when you are a child, nothing is your business, and you are constantly being yanked one place or another with no satisfying explanation provided by the adults doing the yanking, and so you soon get used to being in a constant state of bewilderment.

cigarette hanging out of his mouth, and as he talked to the children he looked at them through the rearview mirror.

There is no sadness to compare with the grief of the young.

Rich young troublemakers. The western world is full of such people.

What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness.

It's easy to forgive the summer rain; like first love, white lies or blarney, there's no malignity in it.

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.

At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

Children, Don't do what I have done I couldn't walk so I tried to run

I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

We're just going to play rock and roll and not do anything else; we're going to stay in our rooms, and the world is a nasty, horrible place because it didn't give us everything we cried for. Right?

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up.

I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.

We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.

Here's an uplifting story. Congratulations to the Little League team from Huntington Beach, California. Yeah, they beat Japan to win the Little League World Series. That's pretty good. See, that proves that when math and science aren't involved, our kids can beat anybody.