Quotes About Youth

The only ones worse off than us is borstal boys. Or those boys that get sent to public school, because if you think about it, them schools are really just posh borstal.

There comes a point in life where each one of us who survives begins to feel like a ghost that has forgotten to die at the right time, and certainly most of us were more amusing when we were young. It seems that age folds the heart in on itself. Some of us walk detached, dreaming on the past, and some of us realize that we have lost the trick of standing in the sun.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

La juventud ama la impostura como los perritos aman los palos de madera, los huesos que les tiran... ¡y corren detrás de ellos!, se precipitan, ladran, pierden el tiempo...

Poucos seres têm ainda um pouco depois dos vinte anos essa afeição fácil, a dos animais. O mundo não é o que a gente julgava! Eis tudo! Então mudamos de cara! Porque nos tínhamos enganado! É o que nos ficou depois dos vinte anos! Um engano! A nossa cara não é senão um engano.

People only talk about how wonderful youth is when they have forgotten how hard it was.

I came into the world with two priceless advantages: good health and a love of learning. When I left school at the age of fifteen I was halfway through the tenth grade. I left for two reasons, economic necessity being the first of them. More important was that school was interfering with my education.

We will always have Reeses and Heseltines, and they will always seem big and brave to growing boys. They swagger and make loud noises in their own little circle, but they are only the coyotes that yap around the heels of the herd. 'Remember this, Shell, the coyotes aren't going anywhere, but the herd is, and so are the men who drive the herd.

One cannot begin too young nor linger too long with learning.

We were young then, and the West was young, with the land broad and bright before us. We knew, whatever the truth was, that every horse could be ridden, every man whipped, every girl loved.

She'd never been one to think in terms of years, anyway. A person was what they were, and many a man at forty was sixty in his ways and many another was twenty and would never grow past it.

in his younger years he had ridden the outlaw trail until time brought wisdom.

But the young men of all tribes were eager to take scalps and the prestige that followed.

The alleged music preached of the wrongs democracy had perpetrated on the people and how to protest against the causes of their pain, which would be, according to the fascist propagandists, the police, the military, the rich and the current American government. His ballads were to call for youth and the downtrodden to unite and fight against poverty, injustice and social ills — by destroying the American way of life. Radio

But what child in his later years does not wish he had listened when his parents talked among themselves, about themselves, their families, the way they had lived? So often we do not realize how much we could have learned until it is too late and there is no going back.

He sometimes daydreamed about sitting beside her in a beautiful meadow and just counting her freckles.

they would have made me a ward of the state.

Kids go splat as they hit the ground, hit the ground, hit the ground. Kids go splat as they hit the ground, my fair lady." D.J. was walking across the playground with his head down.

You know what? I'm not going to describe anybody else as elderly. Let's just say that if you take my age and double it, I would still have been the youngest person in the room, by a lot.

Your parents are just trying to do what's best for you, said Carla. A lot of people think counselors don't belong in schools. She shrugged. I guess they're afraid I might full your head with all kinds of crazy ideas.

when Trapp was a young man, did he have sex with Annabel King

was the smile on the face of Gary Boone. He was in the seventh grade at Floyd Hicks

Kids go splat as they hit the ground, hit the ground, hit the ground. Kids go splat as they hit the ground, my fair lady.

Kaira sat on the floor and ate her ice cream right out of the carton.