Quotes About Youth

he was then thirty-two, still too young to understand how limitless men's desires were, or the absurdity of such greed.

You can get old pretty young if you don't take care of yourself.

But Little League can be a great experience for kids, as long as they want to play--and don't play to bring their parents glory.

He seemed convinced that children's questions were much more important than those of an adult. He preferred smart questions to smart answers.

FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP Youth unemployment has become an urgent challenge facing the global society. In 2011, nearly 75 million youth aged 15 to 24 were unemployed worldwide. The majority of the world's youth (87%) living in developing countries "are often underemployed and working in the informal economy under poor conditions," according to the 2012 The World Youth Report of the United Nations (United

THE NEED FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP Youth unemployment has become an urgent challenge facing the global society. In 2011, nearly 75 million youth aged 15 to 24 were unemployed worldwide. The majority of the world's youth (87%) living in developing countries "are often underemployed and working in the informal economy under poor conditions," according to the 2012 The World Youth Report of the United Nations (United

Sabías que México ocupa el primer lugar dentro de la OCDE en violencia física, abuso sexual y maltrato a menores de 14 años? ¡Qué lástima que en esto sí nos ganemos el primer lugar!

Según la ONUDD, somos el cuarto país a nivel mundial con mayor consumo de cocaína en estudiantes, sólo estamos superados por Guatemala, Estados Unidos y Chile.

Of what benefit is wisdom resulting from experience if it can not preserve us from the unfortunate seduction of youth ? "Why should its beauty be unveiled only to those who can no longer profit by it?

What would be thought of one who prided himself on possessing bracelets when he had lost his two aims in war? "It is, therefore, necessary, not only to encourage young people to profit by lessons of wisdom and experience, but, still further, to indicate to them how they can accomplish the result of these lessons.

Ain't you been listening? I'm YUSUKE URAMESHI... the same ornery dawg you've always known and loved. So I have a DEMON ANCESTOR! Big Deal! I'm still going To KICK Sensui's sorry butt! -Yusuke

All the events of that drink-sodden evening drifted back in snatches. More vividly than all these he recalled that room in the brothel--the dark, tangled hair and the warm, limp limbs. What did it matter whether she was a beauty of a hag? He was twenty and had tasted for the first time of a strange, unforgettable sweetness, an ecstasy that flooded all his senses with amazement.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Youth is not rich in time; it may be poor; Part with it as with money, sparing; pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.

In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.

It is a terrible fate to be a human, to be young and fair, and then so quickly to decay." "A terrible fate indeed: to grow, to learn, to love, to create, to let go. Some say it's a terrible fate to be a Faery; to stay unchanging and unfeeling for all eternity, to spend one's time in nothing but frivolity and pleasure-seeking," Sylvie answers.

At first, writing actually felt the more arduous of the two activities. But in order to reach cultural-center nirvana, I forced myself to continue. I was young then and it was no easy matter to persuade my bottom to maintain such constant intimacy with my chair

As soon as the train pulled into the station, the red guards would pour out of doors and windows like toothpaste squirting endlessly from a tube.

His conviction of having no purpose in life other than to act as a distillation of poison was part of the ego of an eighteen-year-old. He had resolved that his beautiful white hands would never be soiled or calloused. He wanted to be like a pennant, dependent on each gusting wind. The only thing that seemed valid to him was to live for the emotions--gratuitous and unstable, dying only to quicken again, dwindling and flaring without direction or purpose.

He had never looked forward to the wisdom and other vaunted benefits of old age. Would he be able to die young—and if possible free of all pain? A graceful death—as a richly patterned kimono, thrown carelessly across a polished table, slides unobtrusively down into the darkness of the floor beneath. A death marked by elegance.

He heard the sound of waves striking the shore, and it was as though the surging of his young blood was keeping time with the movement of the sea's great tides. It was doubtless because nature itself satisfied his need that Shinji felt no particular lack of music in his everyday life.

There's no doubt that he's heading straight for tragedy. It will be beautiful, of course, but should he throw his whole life away as a sacrificial offering to such a fleeting beauty--like a bird in flight glimpsed from a window?

Everybody's the same. People are all the same. But it's the prerogative of youth to think it's not so.

Longing at eighteen for an early demise, I felt myself unfitted for it. I lacked, in short, the muscles suitable for a dramatic death. And it deeply offended my romantic pride that it should be this unsuitability that had permitted me to survive the war.