Quotes About Youth

Time just seems to fly away for a boy. That, I s'pose, is why one day you wake up suddenly and you ain't a boy any longer.

By contrast, young people are spending more time on their phones. A new generation is emerging that considers their phones to be their personal computers. Simultaneously, it is becoming cool to not own a car at all.

He began to get the feeling that dear Uncle Carol "was drifting about in an Edwardian summer

Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee, With promise of strength and manhood full and fair!

Sometimes I wish I could go back to when I was younger, when the future was filled with hope and possibility. I love it. I really love it so much. I often try to convince myself that I am back—that I'm in my youth and my family and friends are around me, and we're all looking forward to the future.

The Shits played raucous music, which was danced to by immature virgins in middleless dresses.

His life spanned not just the collapse of British power, but the growing enfeeblement of the British economy. It spanned the passage from certainty to uncertainty, from the perfumed garden of his youth to the jungle of his mature years, where monsters prowled.

I begin to see', he said to Virginia Woolf in 1934, 'that our generation -yours & mine… owed a great deal to our fathers' religion. And the young… who are brought up without it, will never get so much out of life. They're trivial: like dogs in their lusts. We had the best of both worlds. We destroyed Xty & yet had its benefits.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

"In the days of my youth, I remembered my God,And he hath not forgotten my age."

"You are old, Father William," the young man cried,"The few locks which are left you are gray;You are hale, Father William—a hearty old man:Now tell me the reason, I pray."

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

It is possible that his curiosity was piqued, for with the exception of a hen-turkey, a boy of nineteen is the most openly curious biped alive.

It is possible that his curiosity was piqued, for with the exception of a hen-turkey, a boy of nineteen is the most openly curious biped alive. From twenty until death he tries to conceal it.

PRAY FOR THE SOUL OF THE DEMOISELLE JEANNE D'Ys, WHO DIED IN HER YOUTH FOR LOVE OF PHILIP, A STRANGER. A.D. 1573." But upon the icy slab lay a woman's glove still warm and fragrant.

She is 25. Whereas Pauline at forty undresses in the darkness and drapes herself languorously with a sheet or towel, Blanche stretches naked on her back under the electric light, her left knee raised, her right foot resting on it, examining her wriggling toes. She flings out her arm and flicks ash in the vague direction of the ashtray.

A young gratuitous smile; trust and distrust; Promiscuities of bed and board and road; The one assured treasure A life, in recollection, truly possessed.

The prescribing of psychotropic drugs to two-year-olds and three-year-olds began to become more commonplace about a decade ago, and sure enough, the number of severely mentally ill children under six years of age receiving SSI has tripled since then, rising from 22,453 in 2000 to 65,928 in 2007.

The GAO, in its June 2008 report, concluded that one in every sixteen young adults in the United States is now "seriously mentally ill.

Parfois c'était comme si Jon et moi , on était l'ombre de l'autre, toujours sur les talons de l'autre, à respirer l'air de l'autre. On nous conduisait au collège ensemble, on déjeunait ensemble, on prenait ensemble le bus pour rentrer et le soir on mangeait ensemble.

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.

El primer mensual que cobré lo gasté en un montón de libros que hablaban de la mala vida. Me equivoqué, porque casi todos eran libros pornográficos… estúpidos… ésa no era la mala vida, sino la mala vida del placer… Y, quiere creerme, ninguna de mis amigas sabía explicarme, en substancia, lo que era la mala vida.