Quotes About Youth

They walked endlessly, hand in hand, talking about their respective childhoods. They were in fact like two children who have elected each other as best friend.

They had marveled then at the effervescence, the sophistication, as they sat in the Flore or the Deux Magots surveying glittering evening. Their supreme good fortune, in those far-off days, was to have been alike in their expectations; the naivete of youth had protected them from potential disappointment, not only with the adventure, but with each other.

It seemed to her that the dullness and the boredom of her childhood, her youth, were stored here in the room under the worn dusty red rugs, in the bloated brassware, amongst the dried grasses in the swollen vases, behind the yellowed photographs in the oval frames-everything, everything that she had so hated as a child and that was still preserved here as if this were the storeroom of some dull, uninviting provincial museum.

I'm not about turning back the clock or promising some magic elixir of youth. It's an acknowledgment of the fact that as we age our skin has different needs.

Wendell Minor: I believe that children's books are the last pond in the Serengeti. They are the only place we go to drink for inspiration. All of us can still go - and do....

Jagte Jagte Ik Umra Kati Ho Jaise..

Little Lloyd, what in the world are you watching?" He was sitting there, his eyes glued to the screen where a half-naked girl was performing calisthenics to something that passed for music. "Britney Spears," he said.

Everybody's young to me, Hazel Marie," I said, feeling every year of my age.

I'm always amazed by my friends who were reading Samuel Beckett back when I was reading Wonder Woman. I didn't think about books much in those days. I took a creative-writing course in high school, but only because it allowed me to skip gym.

The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.

Generally making myself indispensable. I was ambitious in those days. It seems ridiculous now.

occurred to her suddenly that Rachael looked very like an otter herself, with her chunky front teeth, the brown hair which would turn grey when she was still young

She didn't sound scared. Excited, if anything. The invulnerability of the young.

I loved the tales of Dorothy L. Sayers and Margery Allingham. I read widely as a young woman, but always went back to traditional crime fiction for my comfort-reading. If I had a cold or had been dumped by my boyfriend, those were the books I returned to for escape and reassurance.

She was still thinking about Adam, the tight bum in the skinny jeans.

He'd been obsessed with dying when he was a small boy. He'd banged his head against the pillow in an attempt to drive away the thoughts. How was it possible not to exist? How could he not exist? As a teenager, the preoccupation was still there, but he'd hidden it more skilfully, turning the obsession into an intellectual pose, a cloak to hide his real terror.

Those old westerns are the movies I grew up with on Saturday afternoons at the theater.

When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.

When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.

I liked doing comedies, but as I got older I was better suited to do Westerns. Because I think it becomes unattractive for an older fellow trying to look young, falling in love with attractive girls in those kinds of situations.

I had a huge interior world as a kid: I'd sit on endless wet holidays in Cornwall playing with paper dolls.

Like many black men growing up in London, I have been stopped and searched by several policemen. I was 12 years old when I was first groped and frisked by police for walking down the road. It terrified me so much I wet myself.

You know the thing I liked about fishing when I was 14 was being out with your mates mucking about, throwing bread around, getting a bit wet maybe.

I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet.