Quotes About Youth

The Smile on the Face Innocent

I bet there are still many openings and loopholes in art history ... which are being overlooked right now by millions of young people who complain that everything has already been done, so that they cannot do new breakthroughs. However, the history of the world says that we don't win the games, but we change the rules of the games.

To stay young, To save the world, Break the mirror.

Within twelve hours of the Sunday Herald hitting the streets, Golgotham suddenly found itself besieged by the young, bored, and semi-affluent.

For students of every ability and background, it is the simply miraculous act of reading a good book that turns them into readers. The job of adults who care about reading is to move heaven and earth to put that book into a child's hands.

How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?

Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and there like patchwork in their lives.

He has his good side and his bad side. Very dark indeed is his majesty when he wants to be. When he was young, he made a choice, like a tree does when it decides to grow one way or the other. He grew large and green until he shadowed over the whole forest, but most of his branches are twisted.

Y nos meceremos una y otra vez, adelante y atrás, y te acuerdas de cuando éramos crías y le estábamos cuidando la casa a tus profesoras y resultó que eran lesbianas, y lo tensas que estábamos porque sabíamos que tendríamos que pasar los siguientes cuatro años en universidades distintas, empezando por aquel mismo verano, porque yo me iba a un estúpido campamento…

Sándwiches de ensaladilla —dijo con voz normal, abriendo paquetes envueltos con papel de aluminio— y de queso con kétchup. Plátanos y pastel de especias. —Sonrió—. No puedo garantizar la calidad del pastel porque es el primero que hago y mi abuela ha tenido que darme indicaciones hasta el final. También traigo café. Seguro que preferirías tomar vino, pero no me llegaba el dinero y a veces no se creen que tenga dieciocho años.

Las canciones que sonaban en la radio, de repente, me recordaban a Annie y a mí; los poemas que leía parecían haberse escrito especialmente para nosotras. Empezamos a mandarnos los poemas que más nos gustaban. Me habría gastado todos mis ahorros en comprarle plantas si no hubiera sabido lo mucho que le molestaba que yo tuviera dinero a menudo y ella no.

Ugh! Young girls, they should laugh. Life's bad enough when you're grown, you might as well laugh when you're young.

Ask friends about the people and places that shaped them, and summer springs up quickly when they tell their story: their first kiss, first beer, first job that changed everything.

I don't understand how to grow up," she cried, sinking into Robin's arms. "I'm so scared we're going to die here and I'll never figure it out.

At twenty, with a modicum of discipline and luck, you can invent your own appearance. You're smooth and svelte, silky and shimmery, you make original choices in clothing and hairstyles... 'I'm my own woman now,' you think; 'I don't owe anything to anyone!

The truth is that all of us have multiple identities -- if only because all of us were children once, then teenagers, and are these things no longer, yet are them still.

When I speak to teachers, it's always remarkable to me how unaware they are of the research literature—especially young teachers or student teachers." Yet when it comes to homework, most teachers are true believers.

We're finding [texting] 11 times more powerful than email [for communicating with kids].

I'm getting tired of Nancy Drew," I told my mother. "The books are all the same." Once I'd become attuned to the pattern of each plot, it became glaringly obvious how alike they were. Mom nodded sagely. "You've discovered the difference between good literature and trash.

It was not, Zelda wrote, prosperity or the softness of life, or any instability that marred the war generation; it was a great emotional disappointment resulting from the fact that life moved in poetic gestures when they were younger and had since settled back into buffoonery.

Zelda was a creature who overflowed with activity, radiant with desire to take from life every chance her charm, youth, and intelligence provided so abundantly.

You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.

There they are, held like flies in the amber of that moment—click goes the camera and on goes life; the minutes, the days, the years, the decades, taking them further and further from that happiness and promise of youth, from the hopes Aunt Sadie must have had for them, and from the dreams they dreamed for themselves. I often think there is nothing quite so poignantly sad as old family groups.

Swoon, Dora. Every young woman deserves to swoon over the love of her life.