Quotes About Youth

Young men need to be kept away from guns, bombs, women, cars, hard alcohol and heavy machinery.

It was also a good time to figure out this relationship with Tyler. We'd been going out for eight months by now, but our feelings were nomadic, too, hard to pin down. Or at least hard to talk about. We were very similar. We were wary of commitment. We ached for new experiences. We feared routine, conformity, and, most of all, the end of our youth. Of course we didn't say any of this – we didn't know how. We barely knew it ourselves.

I know that at your age you can feel powerless, and that powerlessness can make you angry.

We thought we young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.

We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.

And everything that seemed possible at twenty-four, twenty-five, is now just such a joke, such a ridiculous fiction, every birthday an atrocity

It was a broken world, I knew then, that would allow a boy such as me to bury a boy such as William K.

the time Bryant moved into the NBA, in the 1996 draft, he was chosen as a Guard with the Lakers. After two years of strong performances, he was listed in the 1988 All-Star Game, and became the youngest player to be included in the All-Star team at the tender age of just 19. This

The boy stood with the mouth of the cave yawning wide behind him.

Young people, however, tend to ignore the customs of their elders. Adolescent rebellion has been responsible for all manner of absurd costumes. The more ridiculous a certain fashion is, the more adolescents will cling to it.

It is said that you are a New Yorker the moment you remember the way New York used to be. This miraculous place lives to obliterate its history. It is history as fashion. Trend. Moments. Moments lost and... overwritten. You have to hunt the past in NY. Not like Prague. Budapest. Krakow. Paris. Istanbul. These places wear their pasts with honor over their hearts. A woman. Not a girl. New York... is youth. Always trying on new masks, new faces.

Being young is like being mad. Maybe just being human, at any age, is a bit like being mad. But Maybe the best thing that we do, and the best thing that we are, come from madness.

Maybe we were mad that day. Maybe some of the things that seemed to happen didn't really happen at all. Maybe many of the things that seemed to happen in the days and weeks that followed didn't really happen. Maybe it was all because we were young, and because being young is like being mad. Maybe just being human, at any age, is a bit like being mad. But maybe the best things that we do, and the best things that we are, come from madness.

Time's Flying," said Dad. He Smiled. He pointed to the air. "There it is, flying past! Catch it!" And he jumped, and caught Time in his hands, and showed it to Lizzie. She took it from him, and threw it up again. "There it goes," she called. "Bye-bye. Bye-bye, Time!

It's so strange: grown-ups trying to become young, young ones trying to grow up and all the time, whatever people want, time moves forward, forward.

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants [...], which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person.

The avenues he had taken as a young man had pretty much dictated what the remaining years of his life would be like.

chauffeur of three, including a precocious, independent-minded teenage boy.

Even though we weren't old, we were old with all we carried inside.

john was smart, but he was also a young male with a usually empty belly. sometimes it was simple as that

The gal likes to have fun. But I'm in my fifties. Hell, I could be her father." "Hasn't stopped people in the past.

Decker gazed over at him. "You can still marry again. Have kids, Ross." "I think raising kids is a younger man's game. I'm not far off the big five-oh.

We've apparently come a long way since the 1966 Mustang," added Michelle. "I drove my brother's hand-me-down in college. It had something called an eight-track player.