Quotes About Youth

I'd kind of expected that kids who knew about the Real World wouldn't act like jock dipwads. Guess I was wrong.

There was Kir, red hair combed back and That Expression on his sharp face. Even his freckles looked serious. I'd given up wondering how a freckle-faced teenager could look so much like a disapproving granny.

They all looked like a shampoo commercial, healthy and clear-skinned, perfectly proportioned, a group of handsome young men. Their clothes hung on them like they were glad to be gracing such supermodels.

It was the same old crap-someone thinking they can push you around because you're young, because you're helpless. You had to just sit there and take it because you were under a certain number, because you weren't a real person yet; you could be picked up and dropped like a toy, left behind or thrown away-

Next to her, even the prettiest djamphir boys looked gawky.

I am happy to see that more and more young people are once again taking up theatre.

It's strange, to not be the youngest kind of adult anymore

He smelled of cigarettes and whiskey, the smell of Cambridge and youth.

I try not to return to these moments very often, for I end up lacerating my young self for not simply kissing the girl. I thought we had time. Despite everything, I believed somehow there was time. Love's first mistake. Perhaps love's only mistake.

I look back on those days and it feels gluttonous, all that time and love and life ahead, no bees in my body and my mother on the other end of the line.

I know you are drunk on youth and immortality, but this is how you die

I hate old people. I hate anyone older than my mother, who didn't get to become old.

Her research had been a bit too graphic for a general readership, and her theory that adolescence didn't have to be full of the misery and rebelliousness it was in America got lost in the uproar.

Everyone becomes a genius when they die young.

I look back on those days and it feels gluttonous, all that time and love and life ahead ...

It's strange, to not be the youngest kind of adult anymore. I'm thirty-one now, and my mother is dead.

Time is mercurial when you're with children. A whole morning making pancakes and playing freeze tag goes by in a minute, whereas waiting for Jasper to tie his shoes or catch up on his bike is endless.

Thank God kids never mean well

A yellow oilskin jumped from a scooter, and walked purposefully towards him, notebook in hand. He couldn't have been more than eighteen, his face spotted adolescent red. 'You can't park there.' There was righteous indignation in his voice. ?Bill flashed his ID. 'Get lost or I'll book you!' ?The red blotches met one another in embarrassment. ?'Sorry officer.' ?He retreated to his scooter.

Silvermane had been raised in Zermish, one of the cities of the Hegemony, and while little more than a boy he had broken the ferocious Indigons at the Battle of Uth, in which action he had won his Agnomen.

Confucius said, "When young, beware of fighting; when strong, beware of sex; and when old, beware of possession," which simply means that a boy loves fighting, a young man loves women, and an old man loves money.

You have no idea how quickly a girl grows up.

There is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speechmaking. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.

And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good -- good -- considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted. I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again.