Quotes About Youth

I can still taste that first beer I bought with my own paycheck.

This is a story of several killings, of boys who meant nothing to a world still spinning

Like a true nature's childWe were born, born to be wildWe can climb so highI never wanna die

Ellen followed his progress, thinking of all those young men who believed it was fashionable to wear their pants hanging half off their butts and loose enough to fit an entire basketball team. They should see the way a real man wore jeans.

Perking at six foot one, and slender with the hands of a pianist, Malachy sported a mop of unruly black hair and sapphire eyes that sparkled like midnight suns. His luminous youth was something to marvel at indeed.

I've always liked high school. I'm not deluded, of course. I know these aren't the best years of my life, but as a subject and experience, it's pretty interesting.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

Lily, the girl who'd talked back to the jock, said, "I want to get as far away from my parents as possible. We're like potassium and water." The other kids laughed and I said, "Huh?" "If potassium comes into contact with water, it instantly combusts," Lily said slowly so if she was talking to a child.

Inside every man is a teenage boy, and we're -all- crazy in love with Shulky.

she also shed her youthful need to exaggerate, flaunt her wit, and trot out erudition. She still sent poems to mark an event or nudge someone to write, but her poems became less about what happened and more about what she was thinking. Poems sent in letters . . . rose above daily concerns to larger contemplations on nature, faith, and loss. Images of boats, sailors, and the view from shore appeared frequently.

He suspected, given her editorial experience, that she was in her fifties, but she had been coiffed, massaged, starved, and sunlamped down to forty.

When you're in college you haven't had that much life. Parents, school, assorted youth activities—that's about it.

In most states, on the day that a child in foster care turns eighteen, these supports largely disappear. The people who once attended to that child's needs are now either unable or unwilling to continue; a new case demands their time, a new child requires the bed.

it is my trauma patients who seem the oldest souls in the world, though some of them are quite young people. They are proud human spirits who seem ancient and ageless at the same time. Over the years, I have seen brighter passions in their eyes than in the eyes of any priest or guru. I have heard more wisdom from their mouths than I have read in any book.

In my feed, ART turned down the soundtrack to say, Young humans can be impulsive. The trick is keeping them around long enough to become old humans.

Young humans can be impulsive. The trick is keeping them around long enough to become old humans. This is what my crew tells me and my own observations seem to confirm it.

Young women are restrained by so many tethers, it is not surprising that occasionally they get themselves tangled.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. —Haim Ginott

The sound of the in-crowd was no longer folk or jazz but the bouncing rhythms of rock and roll

The new hipsters had cast aside the syndrome of alienation and despair that saddled many of their beatnik forebears.

Suicide is what everyone young thinks they'll do before they get old. But they hardly ever get round to it. They just don't want to commit themselves in that way. When you're young and you look ahead, time ends in mist at twenty-five. "Old won't happen to me", you say. But old does. Oh, old does. Old always gets you in the end.

Well, my father [Kingsley Amis] was a writer and it seemed natural to start writing in my late teens. I think it was good that I began when I was young and bold and foolish, otherwise I'd have become too self-conscious and aware of the weight of not having written anything yet.