Quotes About Youth

The witness has forced himself to testify. For the youth of today, for the children who will be born tomorrow. He does not want his past to become their future.

I'm serious, she said. I read your articles. They are written by a man who has come to the end of his life, to the end of his hopes. That is a sign of youth, I answered. The young today don't believe that someday they'll be old: they are convinced they'll die young. Old men are the real youngsters of our generation. They at least can brag about having had what we do not have: a slice of life called youth.

And the worst thing about being young is not being able to appreciate that you're young because you aren't old enough to know any better.

Vanitas vanitatum: elective surgery, in other words.

the primary trait of young adult literature is that the author's emphasis is on plot and character and not on his own brilliance. And because few people talk about whether a young adult work is commercial or literary; the two are still in sync, and everyone's benefitting.

George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.

The preoccupations of seventeen-year-old girls--their looks, their clothes, their social life--do not change very much from generation to generation. But in every generation there seem to be a few who make other choices. Amy was one of the few.

Soon the two children will walk down Edgehill Road from the bus stop like burros under their knapsacks

When we are young, we make gods and goddesses of one another, then we soon come to realize that we are all merely human and imperfect.

The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk filigrees. Roses past their prime with their petals loose about them. The shouts of children at play in the neighborhood, Ginger Rogers on the black-and-white screen.

This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.

Oh, Arthur, no one even sees you when you get old except for people who knew you when you were young.

She doesn't exactly know why kids don't like her. She's good-looking enough. She has a sense of humor. She's not dumb. She guesses it's because they can sense how much she needs them. They are like kids in a circle holding sticks, picking on the weak thing. It is in people, to be entertained by cruelty.

Silence, and then, How old are you? Maddy asks, and Arthur tells her eighty-five. Then he asks her how old she is. Eighteen, she says. Almost. Eighteen. The word is a poem.

There's nothing like getting in trouble to make you feel young.

Kids don't really see old people. A lot of people don't.

It's all broken glass inside me, she once wrote in her journal, when she was in high school. I breathe, and I cut myself.

This is what happens. You live past your time of importance and relevance and the world must be given over to the younger ones.

Eighteen. The word is a poem.

Sometimes Suralee and I walked up to the cemetery and lay on the graves. We liked to pretend we were letting dead people speak through us. "I was a hardworking man with a talent for whittling," Suralee might say from her

She thought she need not worry about her youth; it wasted itself spontaneously, like sunshine elsewhere or firelight in an empty room.

of the few young men and boys at the fort, now that she was too old for racing and climbing trees with them, she felt both shy and critical...

Tell them the truth if you like, responded Kit airily, knowing quite well that Judith, for all her disapproval, would never give her away. The common bond of just being young together in that household was strong enough for that.

Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance.