Quotes About Youth

Era la padronanza di sé che pietrificava e allarmava Pablo più di tutto, perché veniva dalla giovinezza e dalla bellezza, come quella che un tempo aveva conosciuto anche lui, e proprio per questo sapeva che non avrebbe conosciuto mai più.

In 1985 I'd never seen a mullet before, had no idea what a mullet was, what it was called, or why someone might choose to endure such a thing except for the simple pleasure that comes from having two haircuts on one head. All I knew was that it looked monumentally stupid.

J. D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield is a literary descendant of Huck Finn: more educated and sophisticated, the son of affluent New Yorkers, but like Huck a youthful runaway from a world of adult hypocrisy, venality and, to use one of his own favourite words, phoniness. What particularly appals Holden is the eagerness of his peers to adopt that corrupt grownup behaviour.

A kid might help another kid who fell into a river, and a kid might help another kid search for a lost baseball, but there isn't a kid I've met who will help another kid out of a humiliating situation. We just aren't built that way.

Other exceptions occur when women mate with substantially younger men. Many of these cases occur not because of strong preferences by women for younger men but rather because both older women and younger men lack bargaining power on the mating market.

I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

Should I be the one to play God? We're both about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods.

It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.

We have had much to bear already. And still more will we have to bear. Let us thank God for being young.

A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them.

Take heart young people! Christ is calling you and the world awaits you! Remember the Kingdom of God needs your generous and complete dedication.

Boys will be boys as long as there are no girls in the picture.

God had a heartbeat for 18-25 years old...the vast majority of whom don't have a clue why they are on this planet.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

Years are not important, my dear.

Take away the Big Bang and what has God done? Burned a bush and got a girl pregnant. Great, he's a high school junior.

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

Sure, he had a wife and fifty-four kids, but he looked like a college freshman. A yummy college freshman majoring in Oh-my-god-I-gotta-get-me-some-of-that.

It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God.

If you ask children in the west where's God, they'd point to the sky. If you ask children in India, they point at themselves.

The motorcycle is a device created by the team of God and Darwin to rid the world of useless young males.

I worked in a plant when I was 14 for two years. I always wanted to do the summer jobs. Honest to God, I always had to be doing something.