Quotes About Youth

before she had died she had been young, like him, and not yet been onced by life. Today

Je houdt nooit op jezelf te zijn vanbinnen, hoe oud mensen ook denken dat je bent als ze vanbuiten naar je kijken.

thirty two years old, no-fixed-hours casual contract junior lecturer at a university in London, living the dream, her mother says, and she is, if the dream means having no job security and almost everything being too expensive to do and that you're still in the same rented flat you had when you were a student over a decade ago …

He was, she thought, as beautiful as a young god, lying on his side among the grass and flowers

Thats the trouble. all i wanted was a tumble in the hay. oh, boy, i said. ill bet that cute thing is fun and games. what he doesn't know about the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees, i can sure teach him

The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.

Nine-year-old girls are perfect humans,

A young couple — bride eighteen, man twenty-two — came here for their honeymoon. The day after the wedding, he was found to have scarlet fever, and in two days he was dead. How cruel it is when pain and sorrow come to young things, — they are so helpless; what can they do with it? What a rush of desire to go to them and wrap them about in one's long-accustomedness until the little bewildered soul has woven for itself some sort of casing.

Snakes in the ancient world, because of their skin-shedding ability, often symbolized immortality or eternal youth.

Someone's screaming from the basement, who's going away tomorrow; and I'm no particular age. I have no fear.

I cried in the kitchen, his death was stupid at such a young age.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.

I made dangerous choices in those years, thinking myself bold and adventurous. Later I would come to understand that I hadn't been daring at all, just driven by confusion and hormones. The person capable of true daring, I knew now, possessed two admirable qualities: curiosity and courage.

There's such joy and fearless in that face, isn't there? It's like the look you see on a child's face before the age of reason sets in.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

a twenty-year-old with braids and beads, with a large helping of soul and a sprinkle of classical.

It's not that the old are wise But that we thirst for the wisdom we had at twenty when we understood everything when our brains bubbled with tingling insights percolating up from our brilliant genitals when our music rang like a global siege shooting down all the lies in the world oh then we knew the truth then we sparkled like mica in granite and now we stand on the shore of an ocean that rises and rises but is too salt to drink

I had ridiculous amounts of energy. Mom's like, you're driving me crazy - do you want to try gymnastics? From the moment I started it, I loved it and it kind of was like storybook from there.

Daughter, I'm not crying now because I'm fed up or regret that the Lord created me a woman. No, it's not that. It's just that I'm sad about my life and my youth that have come and gone without my knowing how to live them really and truly as a woman. knowing how to live them really and truly as a woman.

He wanted to sleep but wound up thinking about the dead teenager, the story the skid marks told, the way most problems usually boiled down to not having enough reaction time to correct a mistake.

Ja, ze lijkt ouder dan ze is.' Je moest eens weten, dacht Claire met een grimmig glimlachje.

If I find any more baby Bards in the wild, I shall give up traveling," he said at last. "I'm not running a School.

Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were already rehearsing for some witless kind of womanhood.