Quotes About Youth

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.

I have listened to young Indians who said, "Christianity taught me to believe in the possibility of a different world; Marxism showed me how to get it." It does not take more than a generation to discover that Marxism necessarily betrays the hopes by which it lives.

I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts.

I was then a young and omniscient student (alas, I was soon to lose both these virtues).

A man above thirty cannot enter into the wild visions of an enthusiastic girl.

The power of young Joy, like that of young Love, does not travel far on the dusty road of life in general.

There are in existence two periods when we shrink from any great vicissitude—early youth and old age. In the middle of life, we are indifferent to change ; for we have discovered that nothing is, in the end, so good or so bad as it at first appeared.

Women are beautiful when they're young, and not after. Men can still preserve their sex appeal well into old age.... Some men can maintain, if they embrace it ... cragginess, weary masculinity. Women just get old and fat and wrinkly.

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.

Up through around twenty-five he'd never even thought about his back: it was a balanced, frictionless, self-regulating system. Now it felt like a busted gearbox into which somebody had chucked a handful of sand.

More lies. But what could you do? That's how you roll when you're a teenage magician!

Now all I can see is how simple he made everything sound. Reading the Fillory books you would think that all one has to do is behave honorably and bravely and all will be well. What a lesson to teach young children. What a way to prepare them for the rest of their lives.

She become moody and depressed. She started wearing black and listening to the Smiths and reading Camus in the original whatever. Her eyes became interestingly pouchy and sunken.

Age is wasted on the young. Just like youth.

She was young enough that all she had to do was kid things, but she was also getting old enough that she wanted to do more than play games and pretend.

She started wearing black and listening to the Smiths and reading Camus

The year I graduated from college was the year Richard Linklater released Slacker and Douglas Coupland published Generation X . A quarter-century later it's hard to recover a sense of how radical and powerful those works were at the time, but to me they felt authentically contemporary in a way that nothing else did.

That's how you roll when you're a secret teenage magician

Boys were so unstable that way, full of buggy, self-contradictory code, pathetically unoptimized.

By the time he was thirteen it was all over. Edward's gift evaporated like dew in the harsh dawn of puberty, painlessly and almost overnight, and though afterwards he could clearly remember what it was like to wander through those gleaming mental corridors, the doors to that secret edifice were now firmly closed, the silver key lost, the path overgrown, never to be found again. His ranking plummeted, and his matches became a series of tearful early concessions.