Quotes About Youth

She'd grown up in a strict household; she'd gone insane with freedom the minute she ran away and got out on her own.

she bowed just low enough to draw the young man's [Daniel Carpenter] eyes to her décolletage. He flushed and looked away sternly. After a second. Tough to blame the kid. I've been a young man. Boobs are near the center of the universe.

Children run everywhere for a reason--it's fun. Grown-ups can forget that sometimes.

I mean, a lot of teenage guys fail in their first relationships. Not many of them murder the girl involved.

Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.

I've been a young man. Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.

That's kind of awesome," I said. "Children frequently are," Michael said.

make the mistakes of youth is no crime, but not to learn from them is.

You almost got yourself killed, she said, but her voice had softened a few shades. I noticed that she hadn't moved her hand from the other side of Billy's chest and he was looking up at her with an expectant expression. She fell silent, and they stared at one another for a minute. I saw her swallow. Please help me. Young werewolves in love.

now, young man. That's no small thing

Internet, she said sagely. Expanding the frontiers of adolescent knowledge.

Only the young think being called old is an insult

She . . . is worried that her daughter is a very young person moving in a world that rewards inexperience with pain.

It should satisfy your concerns as to his judgement- to make the mistakes of youth is no crime, but not to learn from them is. Agreed?

Tavi nodded and stepped up onto the raised platform at the head of the conference room. Though the visiting dignitaries had departed, the room was still crowded, this time with the officers of both Legions of the Senatorial Guard and the First Aleran. Except for Max, Crassus, and one or two of the other Tribunes in the First Aleran, Tavi was by far the youngest man in the room

Your advice is good. For a young man, you have good judgment." "You haven't seen my car.

Wanna know a secret?" "Always." "Only the young think being called old is an insult," I said, still smiling. "I am what I am, regardless of what anyone calls it. No one can change it, regardless of what anyone calls it. And it mostly means that nothing has

Start when they're cute, so they will stay that way!

In fact he was as lovesick as a high schooler of an especially sensitive sort who wonders if he dare share a poem with his beloved or whether she will laugh at him. He does read her the poem and her feminine capacity for romanticism for a moment approaches his own and they are suffused in a love trance, a state that so ineluctably peels back the senses making them fresh again whatever ages the lovers might be.

Young people seem not to know that they are going to get old, but older people know that they are not going to become young again.

I began walking at your age just because the natural world seemed to absorb the poison in me.

Back when I was young and still alive there were almost too many gods. You could see them ripple in the water before the lake's ice melted in April, the loons and curlews giving them voice.

How could this nasty twerp be so ferally sexual dressed nearly as a boy?

The world, simply enough, became as beautiful as it does to many children waking on a summer morning.