Quotes About Youth

SAFFET (üzüntülü): Ne yaz?k ki devrimin çocu?u oldu?um için ilk günlerin heyecan?n? ya?ayamad?m. Ben kendimi bildi?im zaman bütün devrimler yap?l?p bitirilmi?ti. (Co?kun'a seslenir). Ben hiçbir devrime yeti?emedim üstat! CO?KUN (aynan?n arkas?ndan ba??n? ç?kararak): Ben baz?lar?nda haz?r bulundum.

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I vowed to never, ever talk or reason like an adult.

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

My brother Keith begged to go with us as usual. He'll turn thirteen in a few days - August 14 - and the thought of waiting two more years until he's 15 must seem impossible to him. I understand. Waiting is terrible. Waiting to be older is worse than other kinds of waiting because there's nothing you can do to make it happen faster.

His mistake was in seeing her as a young girl. She was already a missile, armed and targeted.

Our adults haven't been wiped out by a plague so they're still anchored in the past, waiting for the good old days to come back.

You're supposed to be dirty now. If you're clean, you make a target of yourself. People think you're showing off, trying to be better than they are. Among the younger kids, being clean is a great way to start a fight.

What is it in young boys that makes them want to wander off alone and get killed? They get two chin hairs and they're trying to prove they're men.

Our adults haven't been wiped out by a plague so they're still anchored in the past, waiting for the good old days to come back.

We're fifteen! What can we do?' 'We can get ready. That's what we've got to do now. Get ready for what's going to happen, get ready to survive it, get ready to make a life afterward. Get focused on arranging to survive so that we can do more than just get batted around by crazy people, desperate people, thugs, and leaders who don't know what they're doing!

Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.

questions more readily than an adult. I looked at him. He looked back, curious and unafraid. He was not Rufus. I could see

You're so young. It seems almost criminal that you should be so young in these terrible times.

You're supposed to be dirty now. If you're clean, you make a target of yourself. People think you're showing off, trying to be better than they are. Among the younger kids, being clean is a great way to start a fight.

The kids seem all right, but the adults. ... I wouldn't want to have to depend on them. Not even for little things.

Middle age is when you are sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it is not for you.

How confusing the beams from memory's lamp are;One day a bachelor, the next a grampa.What is the secret of the trick?How did I get so old so quick?

Winter is the king of showmen, Turning tree stumps into snowmen And houses into birthday cakes And spreading sugar over lakes. Smooth and clean and frosty white, The world looks good enough to bite. That's the season to be young, Catching snowflakes on your tongue. Snow is snowy when it's snowing, I'm sorry it's slushy when it's going.

The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie!

There's nothing that keeps it's youth So far as I know, but a tree and the truth

ADVENTURES OF ISABEL Isabel

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

Polycarp used to dazzle youngsters with tales of heroic worker strikes. He also relished telling stories about a man called Karl Marx, a name he pronounced as Kalu Mazi.