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Quotes About Youth

Es un oficio bastante malo,' he repeated, 'loving me.' 'Yes. But it is the only one I have.' 'Don't you write any more poetry?' 'It was young girl poetry. Like young girl painting. Everyone is talented at a certain age.' At what age do you become old in this country, the Colonel thought. No one is ever old in Venice, but they grow up very fast. I grew up very rapidly in the Veneto myself and I was never as old as I was at twenty-one.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Brett vypadala sakra báje?nÄ›. MÄ›la na sobÄ› pletený pulovr a tvídovou sukni a vlasy mÄ›la skartá?ované dozadu jako kluk. Ona to vÅ¡echno za?ala. Byla stavÄ›ná jako závodní jachta a v tom pulovru ?lovÄ›k žádnou její zaoblinu nepÃ…â"¢ehlíd.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Quién va a corromperle a usted? ¿Quién corrompe a un joven como usted, que bebe alcohol de quemar, con una botella de Marsala?
~ Ernest Hemingway
You have youth, confidence and a job. You have everything.
~ Ernest Hemingway
He was a boy born to be quite wicked who was being very good and he carried his wickedness around with him transmuted into a sort of teasing gaiety. But he was a bad boy and the others knew it and he knew it. He was just being good while his badness grew inside him.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.
~ Ernest Hemingway
When I had written a novel before, the one that had been lost in the bag stolen at the Gare de Lyon, I still had the lyric facility of boyhood that was as perishable and as deceptive as youth was. I knew that it was probably a good thing that it was lost, but I knew too that I must write a novel.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I have trust. I have complete trust. -You have youth, trust and a job. You have it all.
~ Ernest Hemingway
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
~ Ernest Hemingway
There's something romantic about poverty when you're young and hopeful.
~ Ernest Hemingway
There's something romantic about poverty when you're young and hopeful.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Popular! ' Dad roared. 'Popular! that's the magic word isn't it. That's what's the matter with this generation. nobody thinks about being smart, or clever, or sweet, or even attractive. No sir. They want to be skinny and flat chested and popular. They'd sell their soul and body to be popular, and if you ask me lot of them do.
~ Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
É repreensível para um rapaz de 15 anos fingir ter 18 para poder conduzir um carro ou beber num bar; mas frequentemente o contexto social torna um dever para a mulher fazer-se passar por mais nova ou fisicamente mais sedutora do que na realidade é.
~ Erving Goffman
How old are you Johnny she asked. Sixteen. And what's that-a boy or a man? He laughed. A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war.
~ Esther Forbes
We no longer get work out of our children; today we get meaning.
~ Esther Perel
We live in a culture that continually lures us with the promise of something better, younger, perkier. Hence we no longer divorce because we're unhappy; we divorce because we could be happier.
~ Esther Perel
Ralph found himself fantasizing every time they made love: his beloved Sharon kept getting replaced by a seventeen-year-old vixen in a darkened movie theater.
~ Esther Perel
In the immortal words of Marge Simpson, "Passion is for teenagers and foreigners.
~ Esther Perel
Don't you find it odd...that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.
~ Ethan Hawke
It's our turn! she'd thought exultantly. And we're going to live forever.
~ Eudora Welty
He was like a young, undriven, unfalsifying, unvindictive Fay. So Fay might have appeared, just at the beginning, to her aging father, with his slipping eyesight.
~ Eudora Welty
The memory is a living thing—it too is in transit. But during its moment, all that is remembered joins and lives—the old and the young, the past and the present, the living and the dead.
~ Eudora Welty
Pofta de a ucide b?trani.B?tranii sunt scîrboÈ™i.Tinerii sunt mediocrii È™i nerozi.Tinerii mi-au fost întodeauna nesuferiÈ›i,mai ales cand eram tan?r.Curtea pe care maeÈ™trii de gandire,umbl? dup? clientel?,o fac tineretului,e unul din lucrurile cele mai înjositoare din cate cunosc.Cat? lips? de demnitate,ce laÈ™itate,ce nonsens!
~ Eugene Ionesco
C'est pour cela que les jeunes se suicident ou qu'on les tue. Ainsi on les cloue dans leur jeunesse pour toujours, dans les panoplies de l'éternité.
~ Eugene Ionesco