Quotes About Youth

It takes a very long time to become young.

Perón utilizó a la juventud y a la izquierda para romper su aislamiento en el exilio. Los llamó la "nueva estrella" del movimiento. Pero una vez en el poder decidió, por propia voluntad, combatir a la izquierda revolucionaria y para eso le dio amplios poderes al ministro de Bienestar Social, José López Rega.

It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." —ALBERT EINSTEIN, GERMAN

what if you could have all the wisdom of a lifetime and still look like you looked when you were twenty-five' 'or what?' I say. 'what, what' she says. I say, 'I thought we were playing Would You Rather...?' She twists her head like a dog at a foghorn. 'Marla,' I say, 'you get the wisdom because you don't anymore look like you did when you were twenty-five.' She says, 'You don't understand the rules to this game.

Alguien que no me abandonará?, pienso para mis adentros y deseo volver a ser joven, porque entonces tal vez lo hubiera creído.

When you are young, you expect the family you were born into to be yours forever.

My earliest memory? Trying to use a red jelly bean as lipstick.

I don't really feel like I want to chase youth. I want to get old. I want to experience all the seasons of my life.

This book is dedicated to all the women—and men—who know that the human desire for romance, love, and sexual passion has nothing to do with age.

Ian and Joseph returned at dawn, alive but battered, and the entire village welcomed them as men. One minute I was puffed up wi' pride that they had earned their warrior marks, then next all but daft wi' envy that I was still but a lad in their eyes." He chuckled at the memory. "I struck Ian ere the day was out.

in the past, respect for the wisdom of the elders was a central tenet of human societies ... whose elders served as keepers of the cultures' knowledge. But today, in technological countries such as ours, respect has faded into bare tolerance, as we demand that older people act, look, and talk young.

Right next to Thrifty's was an all-girls Catholic school, so we shimmied over the fence to break the liquor law with the Lord. I kept saying I didn't feel anything, but I could hardly get the words out, I was cracking up so hard.

There are so few years to just be a child.

She'll thank you when she's thirty and can still fit into her high school jeans.

People's youthful quirks can harden into adult pathologies. What's adorable at 20 can be worrisome at 30 and dangerous at 40.

The ability to remember names peaks, on average, in your early twenties.)

When it came to keeping a secret, that kid was a time bomb.

For her seventh birthday, Mazy Gulliver got a Play Bride set that included a white veil, a plastic bouquet and a rhinestone ring. She immediately organized a wedding celebration under the basketball goal where she married Termy Latham, the boy next door. An argument could be made that the incident was merely the first in a long series of hasty, ill-conceived and unwise decisions about men.

I'll tell you a secret about the men in this world. They like young pretty girls, but when pretty teams up with smart and resourceful, it's more than an elixir, it's nearly a dad-blamed aphrodisiac.

There was a shiftiness to kids who secreted themselves in a corner to read God knows what instead of what they should have been doing. Reading when you were supposed to be raking the leaves, reading when you were supposed to be sleeping, reading when you were supposed to be making the bed, not lying in it. I did everything I could to read my way out of doing anything else. It was the one thing I was good at.

Books are how cautious kids get to experience a kind of secondhand rebellion, a safe way to go off the rails.

Every woman should have a youth she's content to leave behind and a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to telling it in her old age

I now believe in growing old gratefully, not gracefully. I haven't found the secret to life, or love, or eternal youth. But I do know now that youth is not the blossom but the bud, and that though one cannot always be young and wild, if you are willing to learn, to grow, to outrun the mileposts of your own wildest dreams, you can always be winsome and lucky, lovely and free.