Quotes About Youth

nothing looks very bad in the morning, when you're a boy.

Sometimes I'm not sure I understand this generation." "They got to find their own way," said Aunt Pearl. "Same as we did.

We need to take our cue from the drug dealers in Hoboken who, when they reach twenty, go to the local undertaker and prepay their funeral because they don't expect to live to thirty.

Youth is wholly experimental.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

I was a couple of summers past twenty but I felt there were stones under that frozen, dun earth that were younger than me.

If I could go through it all again,the slender iron rungs of growing up,I would be as young as any,a child lostin unreality and loud music.

These are the tranquillized Fifties,and I am forty. Ought I to regret my seedtime?I was a fire-breathing Catholic C.O.,and made my manic statement,telling off the state and president, and thensat waiting sentence in the bull penbeside a Negro boy with curlicuesof marijuana in his hair.

When I crouch to my television set,the drained faces of Negro school-children rise like balloons.

No ease for the boy at the keyhole, his telescope, when the women's white bodies flashed in the bathroom. Young, my eyes began to fail. Nothing! No oil for the eye, nothing to pour on those waters or flames. I am tired. Everyone's tired of my turmoil.

Surely the lives of the old are briefer than the young.

distant hills powdered blue as a girl's eyelid

Things last, but sometimes for days here only children seem fit to handle children, and there is no utility or inspiration in the wind smashing without direction. The fresh paint on the captains' houses hides softer wood.

If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

No thanks." Lucas watched the boy hop back onto the street and hold out the tinfoil for his friends' inspection.

Lucas watched the boy hop back onto the street and hold out the tinfoil for his friends' inspection.

pavement of the street as the boy draped the strip of gleaming tinfoil around his neck and

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

Childhood and youth are no time to get an education. They are the time to get ready to get an education.

the youth movements could not separate religious formation from political formation

the "wants." I want to be free to travel the world and live in the lifestyle I love. I want to be young when I do this. I want to simply be free. I want control over my time and my life. I want money to work for me.