Quotes About Youth

The physical bodies of young people, the only desirable possession the world has ever produced, were reserved for the exclusive use of the young, and the fate of the old was to work and to suffer.

Como Paul esperaba, la evocación de las hijas de Cécile había aligerado notablemente la atmósfera, en el fondo los jóvenes nunca tienen auténticos problemas, problemas graves, siempre imaginamos que las cosas se arreglarán para los jóvenes. En cambio, realmente nadie cree ya que un parado de cincuenta años tenga posibilidades de encontrar un empleo.

Éste es uno de los principales inconvenientes de la extrema belleza en las chicas: sólo los ligones experimentados, cínicos y sin escrúpulos se sienten a su altura; así que los seres más viles son los que suelen conseguir el tesoro de su virginidad, lo cual supone para ella el primer grado de una irremediable derrota

Jóvenes, guapos, famosos, deseados por todas las mujeres y envidiados por todos los hombres, las estrellas del rock constituían la cima absoluta de la jerarquía social. No había nada en la historia de la humanidad, desde la divinización de los faraones en el antiguo Egipto, que pudiera compararse al culto de la juventud europea y norteamericana por las estrellas de rock

A young woman applying for a sales job at Céline or Hermès should naturally attend to her appearance above all; but a degree in literature can constitute a secondary asset, since it guarantees the employer, in the absence of any useful skills, a certain intellectual agility that could lead to professional development – besides which, literature has always carried positive connotations in the world of luxury goods.

Through all the years of my sad youth Huysmans remained a companion, a faithful friend; never once did I doubt him

Yo era un hijo de puta, y lo sabía. Lo normal es que los padres se sacrifiquen. Yo no conseguía soportar que se acabara mi juventud, no podía soportar la idea de que mi hijo iba a crecer, iba a ser joven por mí, y que a lo mejor iba a tener éxito en la vida cuando la mía era un fracaso. Quería volver a ser una persona

Unlike most people I don't fear death, as I get older I rediscover my long-forgotten youth, and once in a while, when the going gets tough, I bury myself comfortably in my work. My books already guarantee me a form of immortality.

un mundo de kids definitivos.

He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief.

Reklamc?l?k, servet yapman?n en zarif ve en h?zl? yollar?ndan biri galiba. Sat?lacak ürünü, mutluluÄŸun, güzelliÄŸin, gençliÄŸin, erotizmin, tatilin girdiÄŸi cennetsi bir yaÅŸamla bütünleyerek kitleleri kendine çekmek... BaÅŸtan ç?karmak!- O, Lucie ya da Gölgesiz Kad?n

Acaba büyüdüÄŸüm için miydi? Eskiden ayn? yerlerde toplad???m mantarlar galiba bugünkülerden çok daha güzeldi. GeçmiÅŸin yald?zl? sisleri, en basit ÅŸeyleri mükemmele dönüÅŸtürüyorsunuz!" O, ErmiÅŸler Bayram? Mantarlar?

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

in schools where the majority of youth report having learned about LGBT people in the curriculum, only 11% of students report being bullied, which was half the number of students who reported being bullied in schools that do not teach this history.

Those dudes are hot," announced Tamara. Both Lor and Patrick shut up and turned to stare at her. Damian looked up and grinned wolfishly. My daughter's face went bright red. She drew the sheet over her head, muttering, "You can stake me now.

Thinking, not for the first time, that life should come with a trapdoor. Just a little exit hatch you could disappear through when you´d utterly and completely mortified yourself. Or when you had spontaneous zit eruptions. "Good book?" he asked, taking it from her and reading the subtitle, "A Guide for Good Girls Who (Sometimes) Want to Be Bad," out loud. But life did not come with a trapdoor.

Everybody knows you don't hit from behind. It's the number-one rule in hockey. We even have stop signs sewn on the back of our jerseys to remind us. More kids have gotten hurt being checked from behind than anything else in hockey.

It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism.

None of the young people knows how to be part of a committee," Charlotte said. "They're basically unchurched.

So what kind of minister do your folks want?" I asked. "Who cares? They're olds, too. They want someone who will like them more than Tom Fox does. But I think we need someone younger and not some old-school lady minister going on and on with the Mary Oliver and the Annie Dillard." I liked both writers and said so.

I don't really remember a time younger than 5 years old that I didn't have skates on because all I can remember is every day, tying up my skates and a big smile on my face, excited to go on the ice.

A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that's chance?

But young as I was, I suspected that a God who allows such cruelty wouldn't have cared about bringing it to an end. ? Michelle Paver, Dark Matter

Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.