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Quotes About Youth

Injustice alway captures the attention of the young," she said. "But as we get older we discover how difficult it is to change the world, and we learn to turn our eyes away from what we can't fix until we no longer see injustice at all.
~ Trudi Canavan
It was a face beyond childhood, yet this side of belonging to a woman. I thought her anywhere between sixteen and thirty; as it turned out, she was shy two months of her nineteenth birthday.
~ Truman Capote
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
~ Tryon Edwards
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.
~ Tryon Edwards
The young, he says, confuse desire with love, and they end up hurting everyone around them.
~ Unknown
obsession with beauty (longing for beauty / fear of aging).
~ Unknown
Facebook's photo-sharing site Instagram may be even worse for human well-being. A 2017 survey by the British Royal Society for Public Health found that Instagram was the most harmful of all the major social networks. Use of the app caused loneliness, anxiety over body image, and other maladies.
~ Tucker Carlson
I have a cockatoo," Willow was saying to Cricket. "Her name is Talkatoo and she's the smartest bird in the world SUNDEW STOP LAUGHING AT ME." She shoved Sundew's shoulder affectionately. "I was only a little older than
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Bumblebee when I named her! I'd like to see you come up with a better name at that age!" "Wordibird," Bumblebee said sleepily from her sling, and Cricket laughed again.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Uh," Six-Claws said. "My, um … my friend Dune helped, too." "Oh, yes?" said Char. "Would you like to join the army as well, dragonet?" "Yes, please, sir!" Dune said eagerly. "Hmmm. You're a bit young, but we can put you in basic training for now. I'll have you two assigned to the same battalion." Char nodded again, looking pleased with himself, and wandered away.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Obedience to your elders: the most important thing a young NightWing had to learn.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Would you like me to spell out 'DRAGONETS WUZ HERE' in giant rocks?
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I will find out." Violet said. "I am excellent at thing-finding-out." "But won't you get in trouble?" Ivy asked anxiously. "My parents yell at me when I try to find things out." "Then I will yell BACK," said Daffodil. That is what I am excellent at.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I was only a little older than Bumblebee when I named her! I'd like to see you come up with a better name at that age!" "Wordibird," Bumblebee said sleepily from her sling, and Cricket laughed again.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Good news: Four of your students have gone off to find a dragon who just tried to kill you, in order to find another dragon who has tried to kill you about ninety dozen times. Oh excellent, thanks, Turtle. Now we don't have to worry at all. I mean, we were hoping somebody would take care of the vengeful and deadly Queen Scarlet for us. Preferably a bunch of five-year-olds. Very reassuring indeed.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
THIS HATE U GIVE LITTLE INFANTS FUCK EVERBODY
~ Unknown
If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.
~ Tupac Shakur
Those were the days when the three of them were smoking their first pipes, growing their first moustaches, having their first drunks and going with their first women, glorying in their release from meaningless discipline, in the prospect of earthly pleasures and an independent existence.
~ Patrick Hamilton
Come all you thoughtless young men, a warning take by me And never leave your happy homes to sail the raging sea.
~ Patrick O'Brian
the education of the young gentlemen aboard is almost all a matter of trigonometry: even of algebra, Heaven preserve us.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Officially the earliest age was eleven for officers' sons and thirteen for the rest, but no one took much notice of the regulation—seven-year-olds were not unknown.) Before
~ Patrick O'Brian
What private lives the young led, he reflected, how very much apart: their happiness how widely independent of circumstance.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Dr. Maturin?' asked young Mowett, and stopped short, quite shocked by the pale glare of reptilian dislike. However, he delivered his message; and he was relieved to find that it was greeted with a far more human look.
~ Patrick O'Brian
all that wretched schoolmastering.' 'On some it acts like a poison, making them unfit for the society of grown men.
~ Patrick O'Brian