Quotes About Youth

In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all, and to the young it comes with bittered agony because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to expect it.

I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

The things we learn in our formative years stay with us. Right or wrong, the lessons of our youth shape our adult view of the world. Having been raised Amish, I was taught to believe the best about people. Most of the time that philosophy serves me well. I still believe that the majority of people are fundamentally good. As a cop, though, I'm keenly aware that many are not.

Nothing you think at twenty-five is so.

Maybe Chapman wasn't entirely crazy - live fast, die young, and be a good-looking corpse

I am an anomaly - a woman alone, too young to be widowed and too old to be looking for a mate. I occupy that no man's land - no woman's land - between youth and old age.

When I was young, boys invited in for sex would examine your bookshelves.

She is not an attractive crier. Few children are. Matthew was an exception. He cried so elegantly.

This was the inauspicious background for the nomination by John Adams of John Marshall, his secretary of state, to be the nation's fourth chief justice. Marshall, a Virginian and combat veteran of the Revolutionary War, was forty-five years old, until this day the youngest person ever to assume the office

She rubbed her face with a cream cleanser...and she followed it with a moisturizer that promoted itself as "revitalizing". She hadn't yet turned to "anti-aging," but she figured "revitalizing" was for over thirty and under forty, "anti-aging" was for over forty and under seventy, and then when you were seventy, you just told everybody to fuck off.

When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.

It is well to learn disappointment when one is young, for the gods bestow it abundantly if one cheats death for long.

It is hardly surprising that the wizened, androgynous, admittedly prudish little lady in the tricorne would come to seem irrelevant, even embarrassing, within the youth culture of the late 1960s and '70s.

I was the kind of girl who liked to go down by the ocean and hold hands. I still am.

I have been authorized to tell you both, Amy and Dan, that you have been granted active Madrigal status." He paused. "I might add, you are by far the youngest candidates ever to have achieved this… And... Miss Gomez? Welcome to the Madrigals.

Look! Look!" Jimble shouted. He raised both hands overhead, even though only one of them was glowing blue, and spoke in a gravelly roar. "I AM THE BLUE-HANDED BEASTER. KNEEL BEFORE ME OR DIE!" "Oh, for quake's sake," Raffa said, but he couldn't help laughing. "At least we know it works," Garith said.

America. The United States. The rumor was that about three thousand boys and young men from the refugee camps would be chosen to go live in America!

My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.

speaking at age 61] In the morning I feel about 50; then, depending on how the day goes, I might get down to about 22. When I'm directing on stage I'm 43, and 32 when making a film because I feel less in control. Acting? Oh, then I'm 24. And when I'm on my own, I feel about 17 and think the world is all before me.

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

He had the kind of personality that makes you think a boy will grow up to be a public torturer. However

Beauty and its allowance to be selective is a magic reserved for young women, not old girls.