Quotes About Youth

We live in a day when our sense are so dull that we need extreme sports, bingeing, or dangerous pastimes to give us a sense we are alive. We crave reality — both pain and pleasure — so much that many young people cut themselves, saying, 'I just wanted to feel something.

There's nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won't cure.

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

Maybe I was a bad kid. But I was also slowly turning to stone.

There are so many people we could become, and we leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years?

We leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when it's Mighty Founder was a child Himself. Charles Dickens

swarmed by bats, abducted by aliens, sprayed with poison gas, had stuff dropped on our heads . . . ," said Coke. "And all of these things actually happened?" asked Dr. McDonald. "You didn't make any of it up?" "Yes, it all happened!" Pep shouted at him. "And a lot of other stuff, too. You could fill a—" "Book!" Dr. McDonald said, his eyes suddenly wide.

Your mom is weird," I told Ryan.

The guys and I all agreed that sword fighting was cool. Instead of us playing games in fizz ed, they should let us fight with swords. All that running and jumping and stabbing each other would be good exercise.

period. "Do you still think books are boring, A.J.?" she asked me.

The girl was wearing a backward baseball cap and a black T-shirt that said LED ZEPPELIN on it. "Yo!" she said as she hopped off her skateboard. "They told me I was supposed to be in Mr. Granite's class. Are you Mr. Granite?" "Yes," Mr. Granite replied. "Who are you?" "My name is A.J.," the girl said, "and I hate school." WHAT?!

Ooooo!" Ryan said. "Miss Newman is kissing Luke Warm! They must be in love!" "When are they gonna get married?" asked Michael. "They just did, you dumbheads!" shouted Andrea.

My friend Alexia and I were the knights. We got on

Boy, those were

be that children would explore, learn, and become part of their world. But now they just snap digital pictures of each other, Facebook their friends

You may not believe this," he told me, "but I was a boy once." "Just once?" I asked. "I'm a boy all the time.

alphabet and making farting noises with my armpits. But we all had to take a dumb test

For the free and for the brave. We pledge allegiance to our flag, And when we're done we'll go play tag.

immature, Arlo!" said Andrea. "I bet their daughter's

They had been attacked by guys in golf carts with blow guns, jumped off a cliff, been locked in a burning school, and had their heads stapled, but putting coins in a slot machine was considered too dangerous for kids.

funny about it. I have learned a lot in my eight years. One thing I learned is that there is no reason why kids should have

Oooh! Look at the cute squirrel," all the girls yelled. "It's adorable!" "Kill it!" yelled all the boys.

all the boys had a contest to see who could spin around in circles the longest without throwing up.