Quotes About Youth

What we call disorder and ruin, others who are younger live as the natural order of things.

The child and adult reflect each other like two mirrors endlessly placed face to face. The child that we believe exists is the reflection we desire. We are all indissolubly tied to the fact that the other is facing us the way we are facing him.

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!

I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged.

En ese contexto, a los jóvenes ultras como como yo hasta los comunistas nos parecían reformistas y por eso les decíamos 'rabanitos', rojos por fuera y blancos por dentro. Ellos, con una visión mucho más estratégica dictada desde Moscú, no estaban por el salto directo a la lucha armada, sino por la utilización del sistema democrático para destruirlo evolutivamente, sin prisa pero sin pausa.

Coco Chanel famously said that "after forty nobody is young, but one can be irresistible at any age.

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

So kehrt alles zurück, alles in ewiger Jugendpracht !

Das schönste an einem Kuß ist jawohl, daß er nicht siebzig Jahre dauert. Es stelle sich jeder mal vor, er würde noch heute im Rachen dessen wühlen, den er als erstes küßte!

If you try to bring 'teen drama ' you end up doing nothing but pouting.

De ta petite oreille j'oublie les longs secrets, ton sourire d'enfantelet, l'éphémère qu'on ose pas baiser, tes paupières aveuglées par mes lèvres, sources claires du destin, froides, chaudes comme la lune en juin.

Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old age with regard to the values of youth—then we have already started the movement of devaluation which will end with the defamation of the world and all its values. Only a timely act of resignation can deliver us from this tendency toward self-delusion.

The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.

The young are of age when they twitter like the old.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

You're too young to decide to live forever.

Our daughters and sons have burstfrom the marionette showleaving a tangle of stringsand gone into the unlit audience.

When we're young we have faith in what is seen, but when we're old we know that what is seen is traced in air and built on water.

Oh, it's a long, long while From May to December, But the days grow short, When you reach September.

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.

Youth is given. One must put it awaylike a doll in a closet,take it out and play with it onlyon holidays.How to Be Old [1963]

The summer that I was ten–Can it be there was only onesummer that I was ten?The Centaur [1958]