Quotes About Youth

You are only young once, they say, but doesn't go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.

At Smithfield Frith is being shoveled up, his youth, his grace, his learning and his beauty: a compaction of mud, grease, charred bone.

But who would hold up his head, if people judged us by what we were like at twenty?

He gets Sir Francis round and gets him drunk. He, Cromwell, can trust himself; when he was young, he learned to drink with Germans.

His stepson was fourteen years old when he removed his noisy and overgrown presence to

For a young reader that's an important moment, when you recognize that your self exists in the world and that your self exists in literature.

It was just that I was unsuited to being a child.

He has always done what was needed to survive, and if his judgement of what was necessary was sometimes questionable. . . that is what it is to be young.

Why is it always little legs that have to save big legs? Just run upstairs and fetch me ....... It flattered you, when you were young. You thought you were important, indeed essential. He used to hurtle around Putney, on errands for Walter. More fool him.

He will grow up into one of those people who lean back to smile and jump so easily it looks like slow motion and steer cars with their knees and snitch roses from gardens to give to girls and write with their left hand and own two pairs of jeans and one jacket and fall in love from such a height and so hard and so completely that they never quite recover from the drop. But at least he will have me to look out for him.

I used to think that fifteen would be nearly grown up," said her sister Naomi, "until you started being it

This was school, and everything he'd feared. Barren, jarring, stale, always lonely and never alone. He had known it would be bad, and it was.

No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.

She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.

DOSTIE: Let's be honest here. People? Sometimes they suck. But kids, well, they're like a new snowfall, you know?

You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear." From the book An Experiment in Love.

is imperative for a "state"—and for us as a nation—to keep the eternal flame from going out, so that amid the innumerable cross-currents that buffet contemporary youth and sometimes toxically lead it astray, the purest of them, the spirit of the Lord, be preserved; that a space be maintained in the public arena for those who preach and contend in its name. In

I'd look on as old men walked down city streets arm in arm with their wives. I would watch babies resting on their mothers' bellies in patches of grass and sunlight in Central Park. I would watch cigarette-smoking teenagers glittering with meanness and youth, whispering and laughing as they shopped on lower Broadway. These exchanges of intimacy were all the same to me because they excluded me [...]

The brightest stars burn out the fastest

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.

I was born in 1922 in the town of Kainan, Wakayama Prefecture. When I was at the Kainan Middle School, I was crazy about Japanese fencing (kend?). Although I was not exceptionally good at my studies, I liked going to school, because when classes were over, I could to go the kend? gym and practice with my bamboo "sword" until I was worn out.

Suddenly he is beside me. I do not know how, but we are the same age. There is something tragic about this fact.

Those who know something of the juvenile spirit can understand how youth will always lend a glad ear to such a rallying cry.

For youth, the moon is a promise of all those tremendous things which await it, for older people a memento that the promise was never kept, a reminder of all that broke and went to pieces... And what is moonshine? Secondhand sunshine. Diluted, counterfeit.