Quotes About Youth

Uno no deja de correr porque se hace viejo —decía siempre el Demonio de Dipsea—, uno se hace viejo porque deja de correr…» —Y

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

Summer was over, and we were no longer young, but there were great things before us.

Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.

A girl of 19 doesn't react towards things. She explodes.

Although he kept late hours, Roger Mifflin was a prompt riser. It is only the very young who find satisfaction in lying abed in the morning. Those who approach the term of the fifth decade are sensitively aware of the fluency of life, and have no taste to squander it among the blankets.

It's spring," Mike said. "Oh, yes, of course, jolly old spring!" said Gissing, as though this was something he had known all along, and had just forgotten for the moment. But he didn't know. This was his first spring, for he was only ten months old.

You don't want their botched text. You want the breath, pulse and footfall of the girl who dashed out into sunlight like today's through where maybe that door was – then slammed it behind her.

The young, in their innocence, are often wise and capable of teaching the old.

I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me.

was too young to know if my heart misbehaved itself in any way

I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.

When you are young, your potential is infinite. You might do anything, really. You might be Einstein. You might be DiMaggio. Then you get to an age where what you might be gives way to what you have been. You weren't Einstein. You weren't anything. That's a bad moment.

Master Richard carries so much on his young shoulders, the normal troubles associated with adolescence in addition to sharing Master Bruce's crusade. I only wonder if he knows how casually he is throwing away the years of his youth. And if in the end, he will feel it was worth it.

I am in the service of lost boys struggling to be good men.

You are nothing. You are less than nothing. You are a child. That is how your opponents must see you. They will underestimate your skills because of your age and size. That is your advantage. But you must never see yourself that way. Draw them to attack. Feign weakness. Feign fear. And strike when they are close.

These were kids for whom simple self-destruction wasn't enough.

When people ask me how old I am, I tell them I'm 39–with 25 years of experience.

My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

And, like a fool, she kissed him back. Kissed him a way that would leave no doubt about the way she felt about him. Kissed him because she knew the chances were slim she'd have very many kisses like that in her lifetime. Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.

Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.

Truth be told, Raisa had no intention of marrying anyone any time soon. Her mother was young—she would rule for many years yet, so there was no need to rush into the confinement of marriage.

Leesha knew from experience that when parents don't parent, kids grow up fast.