Quotes About Youth

If you wish to know the state of a people, turn to its youth: here, nothing is disfigured yet, they express themselves in ways unset by convention, undulled by habit, unswayed by external dependencies and existential conditions; here, ability and zest for life maintains itself with lovely unselfconsciousness.

On the other hand, the disconnection of millions of young people from the possibility of a decent education, a job, and a fulfilling life fuels rage and violence that spill across borders. Without positive connections to schools, jobs, families, and visions of their future, they connect to destructive causes that make them feel like part of a larger whole.

When a boy's first romantic interlude is with Phoebe the Dog-Faced Girl, he feels a need to get out into the world and find a new life.

When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.

Get it, get it, get it!" moaned Bean. She had never been so bored in her entire life. She was so bored she fell on the floor. Then she took a tiny peek up at the lady in the dressing room next door. Yow. "Get up, Bean!" said her mother. "This minute." Bean got up and sat on the triangle seat again. She waited. Nancy looked at herself. "I kind of like it," Nancy said. "But it costs forty dollars. That's all my

Andy crouched disconsolately before Judge Hardy. "Dad, I don't understand these modern girls. Polly won't let you kiss her at all, but this Cynthia, she'll let you kiss her whenever you want, all the time.

Five million girls in pink Girl Power 4-Ever shirts were squirming around outside the Youth Center, waiting for camp to begin. They hugged each other and squealed. They showed each other their cell phones. They sang. They danced. They giggled. They were all bouncy and happy and busy.

Ivy had been practicing to become a witch for a long time. She was going to be one when she grew up

Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.

Felmenni a városba, álmodozni, maszturbálni és várakozni - így is össze lehet foglalni, mibÅ'l áll egy vidéken töltött kamaszkor.

J'allais aux cours de littérature et de sociologie, au restau U, je buvais des cafés midi et soir à la Faluche, le bar réservé aux étudiants. Je n'étais plus dans le même monde. Il y avait les autres filles, avec leurs ventres vides, et moi.

Son corps est jeune et sa pensée vieille.

Un été immense comme ils le sont tous jusqu'à vingt-cinq ans

In my student bathroom, I had given birth to both life and death.

Çocukken benim için lüks, kürk mantolar, uzun elbiseler ve deniz k?y?s?ndaki villalard?. Daha sonra bunun entellektüel bir yaÅŸam sürmek olduÄŸuna inand?m. Åžimdi bana öyle geliyor ki lüks ayn? zamanda, bir erkeÄŸe ya da bir kad?na olan tutkuyu yaÅŸayabilmektir

There were the other girls, with their empty bellies, and there was me.

La vie, le désir, asexués. Je le savais, à quinze ans, en demandant à Colette de nous embrasser sur la bouche, « pour savoir

Dans les rues, les gens qu'il saluait étaient toujours des jeunes, souvent des étudiants. Quand il s'arrêtait pour leur parler, je me tenais à l'écart, ils me regardaient furtivement. Après, il me racontait le parcours universitaire de celui que nous avions croisé, détaillant ses réussites ou ses échecs.

It's true that a young man in one's bed takes the mind off time and age.

Sur les mots qu'on aurait voulu oublier aussitôt après les avoir entendus, prends ma queue suce-moi, il fallait mettre ceux d'une chanson d'amour, c'était hier ce matin là c'était hier et c'est loin déjà, embellir, construire la fiction de « la première fois » sur le mode sentimental, envelopper de mélancolie le souvenir d'un dépucelage raté.

Écrire ainsi me remplit à nouveau d'attente, d'envie de lui. Entretient le désir. François Mitterrand : « La jeunesse, c'est le temps qu'on a devant soi. »

They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.

Materia had been just six when they docked in Sydney Harbour and her father said, 'Look. This is the New World. Anything is possible here.' She's been too young to realize that he was talking to her brother.

It's his last thrill and his last sting of love, as fresh and painful as youth transplanted over time and an ocean. There is nothing left for him now except to die, but that will take a while because he is a creature of habit, and he has got into the habit of being alive.