Quotes About Youth

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

Youngsters read it [Don Quixote's story], grown men understand it, and old people applaud it.

Algo se marchitó de repente muy dentro de su ser: quizá la fe en la perennidad de la infancia. Advirtió que todos acabarían muriendo, los viejos y los niños. Él nunca se paró a pensarlo y, al hacerlo ahora, una sensación punzante y angustiosa casi le asfixiaba. Vivir de esta manera era algo brillante y, a la vez, terriblemente tétrico y desolado. Vivir era ir muriendo día a día, poquito a poco, inexorablemente.

The shadowy side of real life is ignored, and Western Christianity provides us with nothing which can be used to interpret it. Thus the young men of the West are unable to deal with the mixture of light and shadow of which life really consists; they have no way of linking the facts of existence to their preconceived notions of absolutes.

nova e luminosa, o sol batia-te por trás dos cabelos louros e tu eras mesmo a miúda de botticelli, uma Primavera transplantada da luz suave da Toscana para aquela luz dura da Argélia. Tudo, tudo, parecia ao teu alcance. Uma vida toda à tua espera, o mundo a teus pés, se o quisesses. Ou um deserto.

Neither parents nor schools are very effective at teaching the young to find pleasure in the right things. Adults, themselves often deluded by infatuation with fatuous models, conspire in the deception. They make serious tasks seem dull and hard, and frivolous ones exciting and easy. Schools generally fial to teach how exciting, how mesmerizingly beautiful science or mathematics can be; they teach the routine of literature or history rather than the adventure.

We grow up believing that what counts most in our lives is that which will occur in the future.

Because our present social arrangements, however, do not provide adequate challenges for the skills teenagers have, they must discover opportunities for action outside those sanctioned by adults.

For example, teenagers enjoy impromptu interactions in which they try to "gross each other out," or tell tall stories, or make fun of their teachers.

Much of what we label juvenile delinquency—car theft, vandalism, rowdy behavior in general—is motivated by the same need to have flow experiences not available in ordinary life. As long as a significant segment of society has few opportunities to encounter meaningful challenges, and few chances to develop the skills necessary to benefit from them, we must expect that violence and crime will attract those who cannot find their way to more complex autotelic experiences.

A leading philosopher in our study maintains that if a young person wants to learn philosophy these days, he or she would be better advised to become immersed in the domain directly and avoid the field altogether: "I'd tell him to read the great books of philosophy. And I would tell him not to do graduate study at any university. I think all philosophy departments are no good. They are all terrible.

With the approach of age the soul flies like a bird back to the days of childhood. Now those days shine bright and clear in my memory until it seems as if everything then must have been better, lovelier than in the world of today. In this rich and poor do not differ, for there is surely none so destitute but his childhood shows some glint of happiness when he remembers it in age.

No hay ciertamente nadie, por pobre que sea, cuya infancia no encierre algún destello de júbilo y de luz al evocarla en sus viejos días

Turn, O you years_roll again, you vanished years_sail, Ammon, from west to east across the heavens and bring again my youth! Not one word of it will I alter, not my least action will I amend. O brittle pen, smooth papyrus, give me back my folly and my youth!

Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that.

youth wasn't like the skin of a snake that you sloughed off and never saw again but rather a feeling that you tuck away because you think you don't need it any more and it's only when you come across it by accident that you realise just how much fun it really is

Your heart doesn't flutter like that of a fourteen-year-old girl's when you aren't fourteen anymore.

I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure.

It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now.