Quotes About Youth

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.

She'd smelled of confidence and lilies. She was my age, and yet she had what I did not - a lack of care or fear.

If you're lucky, the friends you make when you're sixteen stay with you for the rest of your life. If you're smart, you know when it's time to let them go.

I made my goodbyes and stole away the photos of them in their youth, leaving them to what they'd made of their lives.

But she worried about how the older students, who were required to leave the school at age twelve, would find work. Many of these "show[ed] by their unformed features and mechanical movements" the ill effects of having been "treated by wholesale"; they were not accorded the respect that engenders "self-respect.

The higher my GPA gets the more I realize high school is useless

And yet I know I am too young, that we're too young, for me to live my life only as it relates to you. If you had asked me to marry you the night you first told me about your acceptance, I would have embraced Princeton as part of a larger plan that involved me. I probably would have reacted differently. I might even had said yes. Alas, you didn't ask me then. You made plans for your future without me in mind, And that's okay. But how can you now ask me to arrange my life around you?

When I'm at school in the city, I don't feel particularly worldly or wise. It's only when I come back home that I remember exactly why I left.

Even with the best intentions, growing apart might just be an inevitable part of growing up.

Marcus Flutie slept with just about every girl on the Eastern Seaboard except me. Though, he tried to get into my panties when I was a freshman but turned him down because I refuse to disempower myself just for a few clit twitches.

In our artificial civilization many young people at twenty-five are still on the threshold of activity. As one looks back then, over eight or nine years, one sees a panorama of seemingly formidable length. So many crises, so many startling surprises, so many vivid joys and harrowing humiliations and disappointments, that one feels startlingly old; one wonders if one will ever feel so old again. —Youth and Life, Randolph S. Bourne (1886–1918) Even now, when I have come

This confirms it: I am living with Beavis and sluthead.

You get older, but you don't ever feel grown up

In six weeks, I'd be packing up all my stuff and getting the hell out of Pineville. But until then, my life at The Mall would really, really suck.

And for the first time all summer, The Mall was exactly where I wanted to be.

Those were the best times, when I was still all promise and potential. Because right now I'm definitely not the most important sixteen-year-old on the planet. Not even ish. I'm just another prebumped girl dangerously close to wasting her prime reproductivity.

Bridget is my age and lives across the street. For the first twelve years of my life, these qualifications were all I needed in a best friend. But that was before Bridget's braces came off and her boyfriend Burke got on, before Hope and I met in our seventh grade Honors classes.

Judy Moody did not want to give up summer. She

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My not being a father had kept me young, had kept my curiosity awake.

The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.

Given the correlation between aging and death, declaring that you can't stand today's music might actually mark the first stage of the dying process.

I think: it's the holidays. There are parties. I'm young. I've spent the past two years going to oncologists. I'm going to put on my party shoes. And I do go to one party, and I leave when people start to dance around a pole. Later I start dating the man whose party it was, and he remembers being glad I came, and casually tells me how he flirted his head off that night. I'm not in your country, I think. I haven't lived in your country for a while.

A child can be very happy with very simple things; adult must do the same!