Quotes About Youth

You aren't really old until nothing is fun enough to make you forget the weather.

In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

I'm too young, too smart and too good-looking to die.

Not a Harvard-type education, just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education.

Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder

Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.

She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties.

Apparently they're going to bring in 'Super Asbos'. But 'Asbos' already sound too cool. Teenagers see them as a badge of honour. They should call them 'Gaybos' or 'Bender Badges'.

You're 28, why are you going to goth clubs? Do what I do, sit at home & wait to die. You don't have to kill yourself, you're just waiting.

Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20.

I was a poster child... for birth control!

I had a paper route when I was a kid. I was supposed to go to 2,000 houses. Or two dumpsters.

A girl offered me E at the club. 'Have you ever done E?' 'I watch E.'

Feel free to look around, but being as though there aren't any people eighteen or older here, stay off the bed. I'm not allowed to get pregnant this weekend.

I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.

When I was a wee little kid, " remarked Roic, watching over their shoulders, "there was a time I thought that any skinny old man I saw was my grandfather. It was pretty confusing.

And we'll call you...hmmm. Pudge.""Huh?""Pudge, " the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right.

Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. - Holden Caulfield

Actually, I was prone to random acts of stupidity. I considered it to be one of my talents.

Pan took the joke good-naturedly, probably deciding it wasn't a good idea to argue with a fifteen-year-old who had just pulled two people up ten feet.

I hang around kids so people will assume when I act like one it's because I'm babysitting.

The prank is entitled "Subverting the Patriarchal Paradigm".