Quotes About Youth

Do you hear the ticking, Mallory, my brave, foolish, young pilot? Time—it ticks, it runs, it twists, it dilates, shrinks, and kills, and one day for each of us, no matter what we do, it stops. Stops, do you hear me?

Nearly everyone I know under forty (including myself) it now seems is some combination of amateur photographer, DJ, filmmaker, writer, and craft maker of some sort. Much of what's produced is good, but few devote the necessary time to make something truly great.

Dawson Well, all I'm saying is that I want to look back and say that I did it the best I could while I was stuck in this place. Had as much fun as I could while I was stuck in this place. Played as hard as I could while I was stuck in this place. Dogged as many girls as I could while I was stuck in this place.

Pink All I'm saying is that if I ever start referring to these as the best years of my life - remind me to kill myself.

Dead Poet's Society

The generation that bought the most shoes and crippled the moral footing

When you're young the future is a mountain to climb. Once there though you realize all the beauty was in the climb itself.

Live fast in the digital! Die young in the analog!

You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.

The last editorial meeting I had was with a 24 year-old Vassar grad who tried to explain to me (after I had been selling novels longer than she had been alive) how to write a book. I kept my cool and was nice to the human, but as Kris and I walked down the sidewalk after that meeting, I remember my only words were 'I'm done with this shit.

You have suffered a terrible blow, but you shall recover. You are young and strong, and you will feel this pain acutely because as yet in your life you have not suffered much. But you must believe me when I tell you that this will be blunted, the edge will not cut so deep after a while. You will enjoy life again, and you will laugh and love and weep for others.

Amazing. College boys are known for big words, not common sense.

I don't get why prom is like a mini-wedding these days...No one should spend that kind of money for a high school dance.

Hundreds,' Joe says. 'Hundreds and hundreds. But then again, I'm old.' So old, Jesus was in your math class,' I say. I crack myself up.

Yeah. When you want what's real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock beside a babbling brook on the corner of Sixth and Pine in downtown Seattle.

It doesn't matter if we're young. If you love someone, and it's right...We can make it the whole way, Crick.

the sometimes brave but searching girl….

That's where Ian and I fell in love—a Little League game.

I didn't think it was such a hot idea to encourage kids to believe they led movie-star lives, even for a night.

Stop thinking about the easy way out, There's no need to go and blow the candle outBecause you're not done, You're far too young.

We are young and the night is young. We are in the middle of somewhere and we are feeling everything.

So, go. Travel far. Travel courageously. Travel young.

You boys going to get somewhere, or just going?" We didn't understand his question, and it was a damned good question.

To stay young, accept the changes and continue to learn.