Quotes About Youth

iGen'ers bring new attitudes about communication. Many don't understand why anyone uses email when texting is so much faster. "For a while, I thought email was what people meant when they referred to 'snail mail,' " wrote 16-year-old Vivek Pandit in his book We Are Generation Z. "Eventually I realized that snail mail was the paper stuff that [takes] days to reach someone. I call that 'ancient mail.

More young people are experiencing not just symptoms of depression, and not just feelings of anxiety, but clinically diagnosable major depression...

Kinnaman found that 36% of young adults with a Christian background said that they didn't feel they could "ask my most pressing life questions in church.

iGen'ers are addicted to their phones, and they know it. Many also know it's not entirely a good thing. It's clear that most teens (and adults) would be better off if they spent less time with screens. "Social media is destroying our lives," one teen told Nancy Jo Sales in her book American Girls. "So why don't you go off it?" Sales asked. "Because then we would have no life," the girl said.

Convinced that the world is against them, some young people have decided there's no point in trying, a viewpoint linked to failure. Countering this view will be one of the biggest challenges of the next decade.

different for other reasons as well. Education took fewer years and lives were shorter, so development happened faster at each life stage. That meant more independence for young children; more working and dating for teens; marriage, children, and jobs for those in their late teens and early 20s; feeling old by 45; and death in one's 60s.

In the three years I spent working on this book, making dozens of line graphs, reading campus newspapers, and listening to the stories and opinions of young people during in-depth interviews, I've realized this: iGen'ers are scared, maybe even terrified.

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

Boys will be boys... and so will most men.

Innocence has nothing to dread.

Day by day, month by month, doubt by doubt, law and order became fascism; education, constraint; work, alienation; revolution, mere sport; leisure, a privilege of class; marijuana, a harmless weed; family, a stifling hothouse; affluence, oppression; success, a social disease; sex, an innocent pastime; youth, a permanent tribunal; maturity, the new senility; discipline, an attack on personality; Christianity... and the West... and white skin...

Preparing to go to school was like getting ready for extended deep sea diving.

The show was over and you had a sinister feeling that out there in the darkness all over the country there were millions of kids—decoding.

Incongruous shiny new video-game parlor.

younger generations have a more international mindset

Men had always wanted her, this Karintha, even as a child, Karintha carrying beauty, perfect as dusk when the sun goes down.

They were people—having fun.' 'They'd have had fun with us if they'd've caught us

You offered them physical violence, didn't you? At an age when they were too young to defend themselves. At least in the past women had a chance to fight back, if they'd cared to take it—these poor fools don't! You seem to have maimed their brains as well as their bodies!

Youth has nothing to do with birthdays, only with ALIVEDNESS of spirit, so even if your hair is grey, Daddy, you can still be a boy.

think that every one, no matter how many troubles he may have when he grows up, ought to have a happy childhood to look back upon.

same. Youth has nothing to do with birthdays, only with ALIVEDNESS of spirit, so even if your hair is grey, Daddy, you can still be a boy.

Il nous semble aujourd'hui que le mariage est quelque chose de trop sérieux pour le confier à des jeunes gens. Ce devrait être un aboutissement, vous ne croyez pas? Un but à atteindre, un idéal. Pour y parvenir, il faudrait toutes les ressources de la maturité, toutes les leçons de l'expérience et le temps surtout, le temps pour rencontrer la bonne personne et la reconnaître...

L'expérience n'est que le masque dont on affuble son optimisme quand on veut le faire partager à plus jeune que soi.

Why do old men grow huge beards as if to proclaim a manhood that has long since fled?