Quotes About Youth

it was not whim or wildness which made me go, but a sudden clear realization that tho you were the first man of importance to me, you could not be the last. — Gwendolyn MacEwen to Milton Acorn, 1963 (age 21)

This skin cripples me. It always has. — Kai Cheng Thom to -----, 2013 (age 22)

My lips and eyes and heart were stinging when you kissed me in the dark. — Jack Garton to Jennifer Hammer, 2008 (age 24)

All the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen.

She could do anything back then, before she had maternal fear to spark any real caution in her soul.

They're both smart, quick to learn. But their lives have been so expansive, their traumas so adult. They are young women and now they're meant to clip themselves into a three-ring binder each day. They're meant to hang their jackets in lockers and flirt with boys in the hallways. They're supposed to regress into shapes that were never familiar to them.

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Cause, celle-ci, jadis dans le nazisme, aujourd'hui dans les intégrismes religieux, abolissant tout esprit critique et alimentant le fanatisme. Le pire devient alors possible. Particulièrement réticents à l'embrigadement, les jeunes devraient, par chance, nous éviter la réédition de pareilles horreurs.

Si les plantes sont un monde sans chef, le nôtre est un monde sans pères ni repères : plus aucun modèle d'identification pour tant de jeunes déboussolés !

Mais la société n'est pas davantage apte à canaliser les pulsions agressives qui caractérisent la puberté, car les réponses institutionnelles ont elles-mêmes disparu : le scoutisme, les patronages, les mouvements d'action catholique, les mouvements de jeunesse laïques, les Jeunesses musicales de France… Que reste-t-il de tout cela aujourd'hui ? Le service militaire lui-même a disparu ; or il représentait une sorte de rite initiatique au moment où le jeune

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

The cuter the boy, the mushier your brain.

Aunt Claire, may I ask you a question?" "Ask away, young Jedi.

I did know a girl in middle school who made hand puppets from her boyfriends' socks," said Aunt Claire. "I don't know if she talked to the puppets, but she did make the puppets talk to her.

Women don't age if their age if their clothes stay new.

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

I've never worried about age.

Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.

Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher.

Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run