Quotes About Youth

Wir gehen allein durch diese Welt, doch wen wir großes Glück haben, dürfen wir einen Augeblick lenag jemandem gehören, jemandem der uns durch die Einsamkeit trägt, die ein Legen lang andauert! Und für eine Minute habe ich ihn noch einmal berührt, in der Abenddämerung, und mir sind rote Flügel gewachsen, ich war wieder jung im Sommergarten. Ich hatte wieder Hoffnung und das ewige Leben.

The anecdote was funny, but as my father gazed across the river at the university of his youth, his Russian life was in his eyes.

When he asked isn't it beautiful, my father was seeing his youth, and his youth was beautiful. He closed his eyes and saw himself young and so handsome, in love with many girls, funny, brilliant, popular. Of course it was beautiful. It was mystifying. It was mystical.

Why was it that the young were always convinced they had invented sex?

the days of the young, when they gulped the air and lived to see the better world, the grown-up world, when they could not wait for the days to end so that they could get on with the rest of their lives.

She ate it and cried. Soon, he put the melting ice cream away. "Shura," Tatiana whispered, "darling, forget what should have been. Remember all that was." "Tatiasha, babe," Alexander whispered, coming back to bed to be covered, "my one and only wife, forget our age, our splendid youth, forget it all and let our crazy love make us young.

Dulce amor de juventud, perdona si te olvido...»

Light came through the window, trickling morning all over the room. Tatiana Metanova slept the sleep of the innocent, the sleep of restless joy, of warm, white Leningrad nights, of jasmine June. But most of all, intoxicated with life, she slept the exuberant sleep of undaunted youth. She did not sleep for much longer.

I was maybe 19 years old. And I always remember that it was a great feeling of happiness. Because of that, I said to Myles that it's no different for me if I am read­ing poetry or if I am reading Marx. I try to get the beauty in the very act of reading, you see. This is for me something that many times teachers don't try to do.

Education either functions as an instrument that is used to facilitate the integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity to it, or it becomes "the practice of freedom," the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

por mais que eu ande nada em mim imagina o que é que menina tão pequena está fazendo numa cidade tão grande

You're like a rebellious child! Huh? You always treat me like a kid, but you're a kid yourself!

We danced too wild, and we sang too long, and we hugged too hard, and we kissed too sweet, and howled just as loud as we wanted to howl, because by now we were all old enough to know that what looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.

When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Delinquency prevention programs in communities and schools throughout the country have proven effective at changing student behavior and reducing the incidence of juvenile delinquency. Yet, even though they are substantially cheaper to fund than more punitive approaches, they have not been adequately supported.

Si de algo estaba seguro cuando era joven era de que nunca me aburriría. Ahora me aburro. Y eso es una especie de derrota.

Ya pues, a ver, una risita, le pedía el mocoso hermoso como una esmeralda marina. A ver, un puchero, le decía con esa boca de fresa, conquistándola otra vez con sus niñerías de cachorro.

Y nos arrancamos del Municipal como chicas reacias a la cultura de salón. Igual fue bonito conocer estas elegancias, dije tomando a la Gladucha del brazo. Pero nosotras somos más folclóricas, Pedrín. Y rockeras, agregué con una mirada rebelde. Y cumbiancheras, acentuó mi reina con su risa de cascabel que me sigue sonando en el ayer, tan fresca y libertaria como una cascada de pájaros.

I was younger, smarter, better educated than she, and I began to realize that she was afraid of me and the truths I told. By the