Quotes About Youth

This little girl's grown up by now, she said. Almost. Not quite. I wish you all a long and happy life.

They kissed. They wanted to do more but couldn't. Samuel wanted it to be special. He was aware that it should be perfect. Lindsey just wanted to get it over with. Have it behind her so she could achieve adulthood—transcend the place and the time. She thought of sex as the Star Trek transport. You vaporized and found yourself navigating another planet within the second or two it took to realign.

Mrs. Casey, do you love Christmas? Well you know, she answered reflectively, Christmas can be a sad time for people too. It's a remembering time for us older ones. We remember the people who are gone. Oh, I never thought of that, I told her in surprise. Well that's youth for you, she said; you don't start to look back over your shoulder until there is something to look back at, and around Christmas I tend to think of the Christmases past and the people gone with them.

Young womens no good these days, he say. Got they legs open to every Tom, Dick and Harry.

But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.

Y es que hace mucho tiempo que no pienso en los muchachos. Y en los hombres no he pensado nunca.

She'd thought him very old. He was young though, only in his forties. How was it possible he felt confident, in helping others, to attempt so much? Was it because the world was in such bad shape, the young must activate the ancient within themselves and the older must activate youth? On a spiritual level was there any difference?

My heart must be young and fresh though, it feel like it blooming blood.

She was never thought of as a pretty girl. People might say she looked interesting, mysterious, older than her years and therefore intriguing, but she was considered approaching beautiful only when she looked sad.

It is true I've always loved the daring ones like the black young man who tried to crash all barriers at once, wanted to swim at a white beach (in Alabama) Nude.

He is a beautiful young man, Celie. Tall and broad-shouldered, with a deep, thoughtful voice. Did I tell you he writes verses? And loves to sing? He's a son to make you proud.

Life many gay people of my generation, I would not behave like a teenager until I was in my twenties.

Let me tell you that a girl of eleven is capable of far more than is dreamt of in most universes.

Henry is a youngling

Could it be true? This glorious, fresh-faced young man, this Adonis - for Nature surely could not have done more for him - still wanted to marry her!

All Paul had to do was show her how to make the leap from listener to creator. Teenagers in garage bands were doing exactly that, all over the world; there was no reason Linda couldn't become a songwriter too.

The older we become, the more serious we become about life. An adult laughs an average of fifteen times a day a preschooler laughs an average of four hundred times.

He said, "I had to dance with all the girls who didn't have a partner. I'd be the youngest one, and I was like a foot shorter, so I was staring straight at all these eighth-grade breasts." "Sh!" "What? It was like the highlight of my childhood.

I taught more than one hundred kids today—and some of them were listening

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.

I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.

a communist conspiracy among the youth ... speakers on campuses/trained to condition idealistic brains

He visto las mejores mentes de mi generación destruidas por la locura