Quotes About Youth

Adults are thoroughly schooled in this way of seeing, which makes it quite easy for them to empathize with others. Each teardrop is a source of pride. Young people, it's true, will also sometimes indulge in this kind of trivial emotionality. But if adults acquire this ability only after making compromises with their lives, to put it generously, where do young people pick it up? From junk novels like this one?

Lo? dükkân?n içinde oturmu? gülümseyen Yo?iko'nun beyaz yüzü. Kir pas tutmaz "bekâret" sözcü?ü bile hafif kal?r.

Eskiden beri insanl?k ehliyeti olmayan bir çocuktum

That "purity of youth" often turns out, as in the case of this rabbit, to be a frenzied dance—an indecipherable, sensual mishmash that casually combines murderous hatred with self-intoxication.

I have seen three pictures of the man. The Yozo we knew was so easy-going and amusing, and if only he hadn't drunk—no, even though he did drink—he was a good boy, an angel.

Thirty. "Something of the maiden's fragrance lingers with a woman until she is twenty-nine, but nothing is left about the body of the woman of thirty years.

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young

To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

I am not young enough to know everything.

encontré una tacita de porcelana que se había caído de un poste. Recordé que cuando eramos chicos las rompíamos con la honda y eso me dio un poco de tristeza. Sin saber por qué me la guardé en el bolsillo y la fui acariciando con los dedos mientras pensaba en los tiempos del colegio, cuando creía que tenía una vida por delante.

Why do we have to make such terrible decisions for our whole lives when we are too young to know what we are doing? The big mistakes are hung around your neck and you have to wear them forever.

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.

Abington, Glass of '64. Jenny was a year behind me and Wayne.

There is, moreover, very little sense in preventing young people from giving expression to their ideas on the pretext that they have less experience than have older persons. There are many who may live a thousand years without encountering experience of any value. It could only be in a society of persons equally gifted that such an idea could have any meaning.

You are young enough! — and yet, I don't know; it is a popular fallacy that time counts by years. One is old according to the style of one's life, not the length of it.

Ouida's first novel was published in three volumes in 1863, though it had previously been released in serial form as Granville de Vigne in The New Monthly magazine from January 1861 to June 1863, as was the common practice at the time. The author was only twenty-four years old at the time, but was later to claim that this was not her first attempt at writing and that her 1867 novel Idalia was written when she was just sixteen.