Quotes About Youth

The adult author finds that by inadvertently violating the school's alcohol policy, she breaks down some part of the barrier between her and the younger students who are subject to more rules.

His ears were so littered with studs, safety pins and dangling razor blades that if he were to stand between two strong magnets his face would peel off.

If you want to get serious about influencing the hearts of this generation, you have to think about creating an actual, visible, consistent place where they know they belong.

a small group is one of the best ways to introduce this generation to the concept of a God who loves them unconditionally.

These pages explore the beliefs, behaviors, and habits that drive leaders who make small groups a priority. These leaders share a common conviction that kids and teenagers need other adults besides their parents. They need other adults … who believe in God. who believe in them. and who give them a place to belong.

skin white as snow, hair black as night...

It was a mom and dad and several teenagers, the latter in various states of waking, ranging from blinking and stumbling to obviously sleepwalking.

The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general.

She raised her eyes to meet Bailey's across the table. If he didn't stop grinning at her, her parents would suspect something. Molly stretched her foot out until she found his, and then gave him a good kick in the shin. The boyish glee didn't leave his face. He merely winked and tucked his napkin into his collar.

Happy the old people who after long experience and many trials reach this superior simplicity of true wisdom, which they had glimpsed from a distance in their childhood! With this meaning it can be said that a beautiful life is a thought of youth realized in maturity.

All you earnest young men out to save the world please, have a laugh.

Niet te geloven dat ik knaap nog een vers schreef over de zilverwitheid van een berkestam en om mij heen grootse dronkenschap van de bevrijding: het water was whisky geworden. Alles zoop en naaide, heel Europa was een groot matras en de hemel het plafond van een derderangshotel. En ik bedeesde jongeling moest nodig de reine berk bezingen en zijn bescheiden bladerpracht.

I entirely abandoned the study of letters. Resolving to seek no knowledge other than that of which could be found in myself or else in the great book of the world, I spent the rest of my youth traveling, visiting courts and armies, mixing with people of diverse temperaments and ranks, gathering various experiences, testing myself in the situations which fortune offered me, and at all times reflecting upon whatever came my way so as to derive some profit from it.

With my teeth I have seized life Upon the knife of my youth. With my lips today, With my lips alone...

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history.

We were as competitive as only a child state can be.

After a time, it seemed that the world inside the books became my world. So when I thought of my childhood, it was dandelion wine and ice cream on a summer porch, like Ray Bradbury, and catching catfish with Huck Finn. My own memories receded and the book memories became the real memories, far more than the outside, far more even than in here. B

Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.

And some materials also claim that condoms are ineffective because students who can't "exercise self-control to remain abstinent" are not likely to "exercise self-control" and use a condom. That's like saying we shouldn't teach our kids safe drinking techniques because those who choose to drink underage can't control themselves anyway—so we should just let them binge drink without any guidance at all.

You are timid and vengeless. When you first saw that word you were in short pants and numberless words in the books you read were strange and thrilling.

I AM receiving every good thing. I AM happy. I AM abundant. I AM healthy. I AM love. I AM always on time. I AM eternal youth. I AM filled with energy every single day.

Beliefs about aging are all in our minds, so release those thoughts from your consciousness. Focus on health and eternal youth.

Emily?" Her mother's strident voice echoed up the staircase. "Where are you, child? I told you we would be leaving at ten thirty on the dot. Come along. We can't keep the young men waiting. Best foot forward.

Almost twenty, I thought. And here I am at twenty-five still thinking I am young and have plenty of time to decide what to do with my life.