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Quotes About Youth

Aron's training in worldliness was gained from a young man of no experience, which gave him the ability for generalization only the inexperienced can have.
~ John Steinbeck
Evil must constantly re-spawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face. While virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.
~ John Steinbeck
Love and fighting, and a little wine. Then you are always young, always happy.
~ John Steinbeck
Güzellik neden ille de eskiye ait olsun ki?
~ John Steinbeck
They got to live before they can afford to die.
~ John Steinbeck
In the books of some memories it was the best time that ever sloshed over the world - the old time, the gay time, sweet and simple, as though time were young and fearless. Old men who didn't know whether they were going to stagger over the boundary of the century looked forward to it with distaste. For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too.
~ John Steinbeck
Benar. Kita tak pernah lagi menjumpai kebahagiaan yang setara dengan kebahagiaan masa kanak-kanak kita. Pablo mengangguk sedih.
~ John Steinbeck
It seems to me that young people have lost their faith in America. Our ancestors had faith.
~ John Steinbeck
Even if teen-age children aren't making a sound, it's quieter when they're gone. They put a boiling in the air around them. As they left, the whole house seemed to sigh and settle. No wonder poltergeists infest only houses with adolescent children. The
~ John Steinbeck
Why are you making no more songs?' I said to him in a tone like that. 'Why are you making no more songs?' 'I have grown to be a man. Only children make songs -- children and idiots.
~ John Steinbeck
Some children want to be babies and some want to be adults. Few are content with their age.
~ John Steinbeck
Can it be that we do not love to be reminded that we are very young and callow in a world that was old when we came into it? And could there be a strong resistance to the certainty that a living world will continue its stately way when we no longer inhabit it?
~ John Steinbeck
We each peeled a stick and solemnly chewed it; it was Beeman's peppermint, and nothing so delicious has been made since.
~ John Steinbeck
Casy turned to Tom. "Funny how you fellas can fix a car. Jus' light right in an' fix her. I couldn't fix no car, not even now when I seen you do it.'' "Got to grow into her when you're a little kid,'' Tom said. "It ain't jus' knowin'. It's more'n that. Kids now can tear down a car 'thout even thinkin' about it.
~ John Steinbeck
Even if teen-age children aren't making a sound, it's quieter when they're gone. They put a boiling in the air around them.
~ John Steinbeck
The group, the herd, which is any collection of children.
~ John Steinbeck
You're growing up. Maybe that's it," he said softly. Sometimes I think the world tests us most sharply then, and we turn inward and watch ourselves with horror. But that's not the worst. We think everybody is seeing into us. Then dirt is very dirty and purity is shining white. Aron, it will be over. Wait only a little while and it will be over.
~ John Steinbeck
You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam.
~ John Steinbeck
His body was rearranging itself towards manhood, and he was shaken by the veering winds of adolescence.
~ John Steinbeck
When he read his father's books, he was the first. He lived in a world shining and fresh and as uninspected as Eden on the sixth day.
~ John Steinbeck
Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes, it'll on'y be one. If I go ahead on all of 'em, it's too much. You got to live ahead 'cause you're so young, but—it's jus' the road goin' by for me.
~ John Steinbeck
Every kid got a turtle some time or other. Nobody can't keep a turtle though. They work at it and work at it, and at last one day they get out and away they go--off somewheres. It's like me.
~ John Steinbeck
Young Henry was conscious, this night, that he had lived for fifteen tedious years without accomplishing any single thing of importance. And had his mother known his feeling she would have said, 'He is growing.' And his father would have repeated after her, 'Yes, the boy is growing.' But neither would have understood what the other meant.
~ John Steinbeck
Toen ik heel jong was en de drang om ergens anders te zijn voelde, verzekerden volwassen mensen me dat volwassenheid me van dit verlangen af zou helpen. Toen ik, wat jaren betreft, volwassen was geworden, was middelbare leeftijd de voorgeschreven remedie. Op middelbare leeftijd werd mij verzekerd dat een nog hogere leeftijd de koorts zou doen afnemen en nu ik achtenvijftig ben, is seniliteit wellicht de oplossing.
~ John Steinbeck