Quotes About Youth

No se puede culpar a un chico por besar a la muchacha más hermosa de Nueva York.

See, that's your generation all over—you muck up everything and then expect us to fix your messes

It's just too bad they have to die. They're totally bangable, you know?" "Bangable," Taylor mouthed in disgust. She wanted to show this boy another meaning for the word bang, and it involved his head against a steel door.

At present, the most powerful forces for change in Iran's social landscape are emanating from women as well as from the younger generation of Iranians, the very children who, the Islamists had hoped, would in time rekindle their parents' long-lost political fervor.

certain element—a few crazies—that don't have anything to do. They shot out two streetlights on Goodwinter Boulevard last night. When I was a kid we smashed pumpkins and strung trees with toilet paper on Halloween, but this new generation does it all year round.

Jaunti, who was half Qwilleran's age, now had the gall to write a column of wit and wisdom from the Delphic heights of his adolescent ignorance.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

It was in that tree that I learned to read, filled with the passions that can only come to the bookish, grasping, very young, bewildered by almost all of what I read, sweating in the attempt to understand a world of adults I fled from in real life but desperately wanted to join in books. (I did not connect the grown men and women in literature with the grown men and women I saw around me. They were, to me, another species.)

TIAs?" Crane said. "How extensive?" "Partial paralysis, slurred speech, lasting in each case less than two hours." "What were their ages?" "Late twenties and early thirties." "Really?" Crane frowned. "That seems awfully young for a stroke. Two strokes, at that. You did neurological workups?

even if the older mind lives by remembering, the young mind lives by forgetting.

excitement of it. He'd been the golden boy

I have a blanket behind the seat, a thick wool one. We can cuddle on the bleachers, and with the blanket wrapped around us no one will know if I sneak a feel every now and then." "I'll know." "God, I hope so. If you don't, then I've either lost my touch or my aim.

By God, if I were twenty years younger," he thundered, "I'd drag you outside and horsewhip you!" Steven

Dac? nu mori tân?r, uneori trebuie s? te contrazici.

You're strong and that helped you, but this doesn't have to define you. You are a young woman with your whole life ahead of you. Don't confuse what you had to do to survive with who you are.

Warn a kid with oppositional defiant disorder not to do something, and you've pretty much guaranteed the crime.

We're about to be overrun by an entire generation of juvenile psychopaths.

if I could just have twenty seconds alone with younger, stupider me . . . But there are some mistakes you never get to take back. And there are some experiences there is no returning from.

after-school

My mother would watch him and sigh. He's a young soul, she would say, with a tender heart. She worried for him. But never for me. I was the happy one. At least, that's how the story goes.

I guess. There were over a hundred and fifty kids in our class, so we definitely knew more than just each other.

Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.

Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.

Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.