Quotes About Youth

Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do

Jacob looks like a totally normal young man. He's clearly intelligent. But having his day disrupted probably makes him feel the same way I would if I was suddenly told to bungee off the top of the Sears Tower.

Summertime, I think, is a collective unconscious. We all remember the notes that made up the song of the ice cream man; we all know what it feels like to brand our thighs on a playground slide that's heated up like a knife in a fire; we all have lain on our backs with our eyes closed and our hearts beating across the surface of our lids, hoping that this day will stretch just a little longer than the last one, when in fact it's all going in the other direction.

Crazy girls did this, girls who walked like zombies through YA novels. But. Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet welling rise of blood. It hurt, though not as much as everything else idd.

Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just means you fear different things.

What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without looking hard enough to see the hairline crack.

A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod...

I'm at the age where that's a surprise, where I still think I'm going to see a younger woman rather than the one who blinks back at me.

What you don't sweat out when you're young will turn into tears when you're old.

Our young men and women must be taught that through hard work, they can create opportunities for themselves and others.

I realized that with hard work the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do. I learned that at a young age.

I feel like I'm making a difference. I feel like putting out a message for young girls to follow your dreams and just work at what you want to do and be yourself.

My generation was born to work with social media - it's a natural part of our communication with the world.

Let's face it: in advertising, you are paid more, but you die younger. It's not very forgiving. Like sports stars, you're in it during your better years, and then you're out looking for work.

You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear after that. Maybe I've lucked out because I came back and went to work.

The single life is bearable to me only through my work in science, but for the long term, it would be very bad if I had to make do without a very young person next to me.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.

I went to high school with girls that would daydream about what strip club they wanted to work at. That's one of the sad things about Vegas.

What a day it has been.. When I look back to it, I can say: This was one hell of a crazy thing that I did in my life...Kids, this is my life.

College life too crazy. I feel like the only sober man in the world right now.

Live your life, take chances, be crazy. Don't wait cause right now is the oldest you've ever been & the youngest you'll be ever again

An old man who marries a young wife grows younger but she grows older.

And we slowly finished laughing in the glow of our headlights. Ive given a lot of thought to the nights we used to have. The days have come and gone. Our lives went by so fast. I faintly remember breathing on your bedroom floor where I laid and told you, but you swore you loved me more.