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Quotes About Youth

Jaenelle blushed. "No, none of them are my mate. I'm not old enough for a mate," she added hurriedly as Smoke gave them all a look of blatant disapproval. "This is Saetan, the High Lord. He's my sire. My brother, Prince Mephis, is the High Lord's pup. And this is my uncle, Prince Andulvar, and my cousin, Lord Prothvar. And that's Lord Beale. Everyone, this is Prince Smoke.
~ Anne Bishop
She was young, healthy, stronger than she'd ever been. And she was in love with him. She'd fallen in love with a man who challenged the world to take him on, sometimes with laughing, boyish enthusiasm and other times as a warrior born and trained to kill. She could do this for him. Would do this for him.
~ Anne Bishop
Saetan laughed, genuinely amused. "No, I wouldn't think he would. He's in his prime, virile, living, and well trained in seduction. That twelve-year-old body must be driving him out of his skin.
~ Anne Bishop
You're only twenty-four," he said. "You have plenty of scars for someone your age.
~ Anne Bishop
You're not going to answer, are you?" Jaenelle asked after a minute of teeth-grinding silence. "No." "Don't you know the answer?" "Whether I know the answer or not is beside the point. It's not something a man discusses with a young girl." "But you know the answer." Daemon growled.
~ Anne Bishop
Mixed feelings and a bruised heart. Maybe that was what a first love was in the end.
~ Anne Bishop
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
~ Anne Bradstreet
Leave not thy nest, thy dam and sire, Fly back and sing amidst this choir.
~ Anne Bradstreet
In youth, skin cells are replaced every two weeks but, as we age, the cycle slows down. The cells on the surface of the skin remain there longer and begin to look dull and tired. Natural oil production decelerates and collagen and elastin, which give the skin elasticity, break down, especially after menopause. Pockets of fat beneath the skin's surface become thinner. The overall effect is a face that is wrinkled, sagging, and boney.
~ Anne Campbell
Between the ages of 15 and 25 a woman reaches her maximum attractiveness.
~ Anne Campbell
Make-up is in short designed to mimic youth, correct asymmetries, and signal sexuality.
~ Anne Campbell
SPIRIT RULES SECRETLY ALONE THE BODY ACHIEVES NOTHINGis something you knowinstinctively at fourteen and can still remember even with hell in your headat sixteen.
~ Anne Carson
Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other, while the first snows of winter floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced all trace of the world.
~ Anne Carson
We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
~ Anne Carson
How long will it feel like burning, said the child trying to be kind.
~ Anne Carson
HE WAS FOURTEEN it was years ago and Sad's name wasn't Sad yet. First comet. G had just stumbled off a bus they looked at one another and that lasted until G was almost twenty but he. Well. Being a loyal soul himself. Sad's need to make friends everywhere. Sex friends club friends gym friends dope friends shopping friends breakdown friends a common enough problem. Sad didn't see a problem. One day he looked around and G was gone.
~ Anne Carson
It is a black-and-white photograph showing a naked young man in fetal position. He has entitled it "No Tail!" The fantastic fingerwork of his wings is outspread on the bed like a black lace map of South America.
~ Anne Carson
Youth is a dream where I go every night and wake with just this little jumping bunch of arteries     in my hand.
~ Anne Carson
Rape is the story of Helen, Persephone, Norma Jeane, Troy. War is the context and God is a boy.
~ Anne Carson
If you think about it, the youngest part of the tree is in the very middle. It is the little dot that will widen into a ring, next year. The youngest part of any tree is the heart.
~ Anne Enright
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
~ Anne Frank
Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.
~ Anne Frank
Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.
~ Anne Frank
issue hit home—when their own children started using intravenous drugs and got infected.
~ Anne Garrels