Quotes About Youth

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

How old was I before I realized there were other places besides right here?" Seven

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

Harriet pushed her hair back and looked at him seriously. 'Sport, what are you going to be when you grow up?' 'You know what. You know I'm going to be a ball player.' 'Well, I'm going to be a writer. And when I say that's a mountain, that's a mountain.' Satisfied, she turned back to her town.

If Marion Hawthorne doesn't watch out, she's going to grow up into a lady Hitler.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.

All children are sad, but some get over it.

Once again the fate of reckless youth was being decided by old men behind closed doors.

by parents who tried to pretend their progeny weren't one jelly bean away from Lord of the Flies.

This used to be my drug of choice. In my teens my drug of choice was acceptance, in my twenties it was approval, in my thirties it was love, in my forties it was Scotch.

Recruiters, for terrorist cells and police forces and armies, relied on this simple truth: if you got people young enough, they could be made to do just about anything.

he wondered whether it was always the young who were brave. And the old grew fearful and cowardly. Was

These are young people, Madame Gamache. They're gifted, and many are fragile, having been marginalized most of their lives for being creative. We live in a society that doesn't value being different. When they come here, to art college, it's probably the first time in their lives they feel they belong. Safe. Not just valued, but precious.

Armand wondered if Florence understood that line from The Little Prince. He hadn't, as a child. It was only as he got older that he knew it to be true.

No one could look at the beautiful young man now. They dropped their eyes from the scalding sight. From the eclipse. As all that love turned into hate.

One thing Gamache knew for sure. Little Frederick Lawson had not picked up his stick, pointed it, and slaughtered a village filled with old men, and women and children. So how did one become the other? How did a nine-year-old boy acting out heroics become a twenty-year-old man committing an atrocity?

In my teens my drug of choice was acceptance, in my twenties it was approval, in my thirties it was love, in my forties it was Scotch.

The deaths of those young women changed Canadian society. It brought about much stricter gun legislation (though it could be tougher still) and forced a long, hard, often painful examination of equal rights. Of human rights.

But looking at the young men and women staring at him now, who'd seen something terrible about to happen and had done nothing, Chief Inspector Gamache wondered if he could have been wrong all this time. Maybe the darkness sometimes won. Maybe evil had no limits.

When girls walk home we put on lippy and makeup. We chat. Sometimes we pretend to be hunchbacks. But that is it. Perfectly normal behavior.

Louise Rennison

I can already feel myself getting fed up with boys and I haven't had anything to do with them yet" - Georgia Nicolson

Here is my recipe for a mood enhancer. Take a friend, preferably one with a really annoying fringe and outsize pants, and when she is rambling on swiftly, push her into a ditch and run away.