Quotes About Youth

Don't grow up, Urchin, whatever you do. Definitely a bad idea.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.

There was so much pure fun in the world that it didn't pay to grow up too soon.

It's quite commonplace for a young man to fall in love and equally commonplace for him to be rejected, but come what may, I'll always be fond of you.

So gloriously confident, so new to life you could conquer the world.

I recall how I suspected at the time that my young friend was indulging in her first bout of calf love.

I feel like... the boy lost somewhere between the torment of memory and a few fragile shards of hope.

In those days she had been a sly-eyed little party, much younger than the crowd which had grown up with Minnie, but she had strung along with them and, when Jake Bernadine's first wife had given up in despair, had married and mothered him, enjoyed his strange pictures, and had children by him. Just

Avril raised his fine head. 'Yes,' he said. 'My poor Margaret.' His face changed only for an instant. The grief upon it appeared and passed like the shadow of a leaf in the wind, but its intensity was so great that Luke, who was still a young man, was dismayed to learn that it could exist.

With her heels kicking the stone's side high above the ground, Branza was a girl again, though she was full-grown long ago; though the years had accumulated behind her in their great pointless pile.

Adult Mohaves encouraged the young to indulge themselves sexually while they could, so that by their mid-teens, they were jaded

Very early in my life it was too late.

I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.

Hi, you've reached Caitlin! I'm either on the other line or I'm purposely ignoring you. Or maybe Mrs. Mitchell confiscated my phone for texting in class again... Leave a message and if I deem you worthy, or at least hot, I'll call you back. Mwah!

I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.

Some days I'm just sixteen, and sixteen isn't what I want to be.

I have long been aggravated, and it increases, about the way that society values women almost exclusively for their beauty and youth, and when we get older, tries to make us powerless - just when we're at our most knowledgeable, and most capable. It's so rotten. I gnash my teeth.

Let him grow up, I was thinking the whole time. That's an old prayer. It comes in every language.

No one understood the simple truth: Klas had realized that what is most beautiful must be also most fragile. Now this is scary and hard to bear when you are little and don't know anything about the nature of glass. For it is very upsetting that the most beautiful things in life shatter so easily.

Det er klart disse unge hadde handlet i god tro, en måtte vel tilgi dem. Skjønt de fleste syntes nok at ungdommer nå til dags var litt vel foretaksomme.

Para ser inteligente, hay que empezar desde chica. To be intelligent, one must start young.

But, above all it is the education of adolescents that is important, because adolescence is the time when the child enters on the state of [adult]hood and becomes a member of society.