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Quotes About Youth

Young love is a treasure truly wasted on the young,
~ Joe Abercrombie
Isern squelched up the bank with Rikke's dripping trousers. 'Clean as new snow! Your only stench now shall be of youth and disappointment.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Logen still remembered the first time he had to leave someone behind, remembered it like it was yesterday. Strange how the boy's name had gone but the face was with him still.
~ Joe Abercrombie
As far as I'm concerned you can fuck whomever you please, though my general observation has been that, as far as the reputations of young women are concerned, the less fucking the better. The reverse is true for young men of course. Hardly fair, but then life is unfair in so many ways, this one hardly seems worth commenting on.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.
~ Joe Abercrombie
When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.
~ Joe Abercrombie
He's still young enough to think that rudeness wins respect.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Strange, that however tough one's skin becomes in later life, the wounds of youth never close. Shenkt
~ Joe Abercrombie
There was a red stain across Gorst's eye above the flatbow bolt. But the other one rolled up towards Leo. It seemed, somehow, he still had that smile. 'Do you believe...' His voice sounded much like anyone else's, whispering. 'In redemption?' 'I don't fucking care.' 'You're young. Give it time.
~ Joe Abercrombie
You are ragged for a merchant.' 'I didn't say I was a good one.' 'And young,' said the captain. 'I didn't say I was an old one.' 'Where is your ship?' 'At sea.' 'Why are you not aboard?' 'I thought it wise to leave before it touched the bottom.
~ Joe Abercrombie
far as the reputations of young women are concerned, the less fucking the better. The reverse is true for young men of course. Hardly fair, but then life is unfair in so many ways, this one hardly seems worth commenting on." "Huh.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The dead save me from the fucking young.' 'No getting away from 'em, sadly,' muttered Clover. 'The older you get, the more of 'em there are.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Strange, that however tough one's skin becomes in later life, the wounds of youth never close.
~ Joe Abercrombie
When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Both so very young, and so very beautiful, and with all their happy, rich, and powerful lives ahead of them. Hurrah! Hurrah for them! My shrivelled turd of a heart bursts open with joy!
~ Joe Abercrombie
You're young and got dreams ahead of you still. You don't know how it is. One day you're something, so promising and full o' dares, so big the world's too small a place to hold you. Then, 'fore you know it, you're old, and you realize all them things you had in mind you'll never get to. All them doors you felt too big to fit through have already shut. Only one left open and it leads to nothing but nothing.
~ Joe Abercrombie
the young Lord Smund, a man of impeccable lineage and immense fortune, a little over twenty but with all the talents of a precocious ten-year-old.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Moshing, for most of them, is a celebration of the moment, of the sad fact that it is only a moment.
~ Joe Ambrose
Being a young programmer today must be awful—you can choose 20 different programming languages, dozens of framework and operating systems and you're paralyzed by choice. There was no paralysis of choice then. You just start doing it because the decision as to which language and things is just made—there's no thinking about what you should do, you just go and do it.
~ Joe Armstrong
Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.
~ Joe Baca
Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids
~ Joe Biden
As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.
~ Joe Bob Briggs
The best days of summer are the days of summer gone.
~ Joe Bolton
Children think sex is funny
~ Joe Brainard