Quotes About Youth

I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.

Children had a special status - protected from the outside world - and they dressed for the part in a way that made that special status immediately visible to themselves and the adults.

You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.

My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'

When you're young, you believe in the most basic things. You believe that there are good people around you. And you don't just take things for granted, like the ocean or the sky, or even being able to dream, to have a vision, to have ambition. As you grow up, all that gets knocked out of you.

It's always special when you're young and you have a vision for something you want to do, and somebody takes a moment to connect with you. Now if there are kids on the set I try to talk to them for a bit.

By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

And part of my vision is to do dynamic videos for kids.

I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.

We were always drawing comics as kids. My brother Charles made me draw comics. I was very much under his domination. He was actually a much stronger artistic visionary than I was.

What does it matter what age you are when that happens? Either way, you won't get today back.

You'll turn thirty or forty or fifty anyway, whether your hours are finished or not," she said. "What does it matter what age you are when that happens? Either way, you won't get today back." We all went quiet. You won't get today back.

You'll turn thirty or forty or fifty anyway, whether your hours are finished or not," she said. "What does it matter what age you are when that happens? Either way, you won't get today back." We all went quiet. You won't get today back. What a chilling idea.

Children, bound by parental rules, are really free only in one aspect—emotionally. For a while, at least, they can cry or laugh or have tantrums unselfconsciously; they can have big dreams and unedited desires. Like many people my age, I don't feel free because I've lost touch with that emotional freedom.

In those dangerous narrows grew children who knew too much too young but, sadly, always seemed to learn too little too late.

Uncle Stash said you didn't have to be crazy to to do something stupid, just young.

We laughed harder than the humor deserved, which goes to show you no matter your age, you're closer to adolescence than you think.

How could my heart be so wrong?" "Because it was such a young heart.

She'd been a silly girl then, full of childish dreams. Sometimes she missed that young girl.

Shame, when she was younger, had stopped her. Fear, as she grew older, trapped the truth within her.

When you're young, you wish for things in the future, but when you grow old... you wish for things from the past to

When you're young, you wish for things in the future, but when you grow old … you wish for things from the past

There are two kinds of books in the world--the boring kind they make you read in school and the interesting kind that they won't let you read in school because then they would have to talk about real stuff like sex and divorce and is there a God and if there isn't then what happens when you die, and how come the history books have so many lies in them.

When you're young, you do drugs that could kill you. When you get old, you just want drugs that can keep you alive. Full circle, baby.