Quotes About Youth

I've never been able to forget the infinite little smile of pure affection that danced across his livid face. Enough gaiety to fill the universe. Few people past twenty preserve any of the affection, the affection of animals. This world isn't what we expected. So our looks change! They change plenty! We made a mistake! And turned into a thorough stinker in next to no time! Past twenty it shows in our face! A mistake! Our face is just a mistake!

He's fiddling around in his pocket...nothing to worry about...all the young ones fiddle around in their pockets...a pistol? an erection?

Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies.

the old geezer was eighty, he'd been horseback riding only last year ... now he had a different sport, he went down on all fours and the kids rode him ... giddyap, horsie! they whipped him with his riding whip! ... till the blood came! ... he loved it! ... all around his study! faster! faster! ... los! ... into the next room ... witches! witches! he yelled at them, with his bare old ass! ...

Perdemos a maior parte de nossa juventude por conta das inabilidades. Saltava aos olhos que ela ia me abandonar, minha bem-amada, de vez e em breve. Eu ainda não havia aprendido que existem duas humanidades muito diferentes, a dos ricos e a dos pobres. Precisei, como tantos outros, de vinte anos e da guerra para aprender a me manter na minha categoria, para perguntar o preço das coisas e dos seres antes de tocá-los, e em especial antes de desejá-los.

Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth.

That's the way it goes. You can't deny it, men have a hard time doing all that's demanded of them: butterflies in their youth, maggots at the end. I

Ya no nos queda demasiada música dentro para hacer bailar a la vida: ahí esta. Toda la juventud ha ido a morir al fin del mundo en el silencio de la verdad. ¿Y adónde ir, fuera, decidme, cuando no llevas contigo la suma suficiente de delirio? La verdad es una agonía ya interminable. La verdad de este mundo es la muerte. Hay que escoger: morir o mentir. Yo nunca me he podido matar.

youth may be nothing more than a hurry to grow old.

All I know is we're 16 and ready to be kissed, kissed kissed.

Nell found adults to be constrained. It was as if sometime during their late youth, someone had drawn a box for them to step into. The box had four sides, a bottom, and a top; the adult would hop in—willingly, it seemed—and never get out again.

EVERYONE THOUGHT QUINN was watching Meet the Press with Grandma, even Grandma. Lying on the sofa, covered with an afghan, Quinn had simply rolled off and stuffed pillows under the covers while Grandma stared at the screen. Then she had sidled upstairs, out her bedroom window, and down the oak tree growing right by the house.

Kids like that, who've had too much adversity young, have a real uphill battle. Quinn tries so hard, but she's something of a lost soul… she needs us to understand her." Rumer nodded.

Kids like that, who've had too much adversity young, have a real uphill battle. Quinn tries so hard, but she's something of a lost soul… she needs us to understand her.

Wij moeten niets verwachten van onze kinderen. Het woord zelf zegt het al, 'verwachten'! Alsof wij op iets moeten wachten dat er nu nog niet is. De jeugd van onze kinderen is er nu. We zijn altijd maar onderweg. We zijn hier zo kort. Laat het onderwijs alstublieft geen voorbereiding zijn op iets onduidelijks dat in de toekomst ligt.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

The way to stay young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.

I feel sorry for young people today who feel so alone that they have to mate with their first crush. It shocks me that so many young brides are pregnant at the alter. When you have kids late in life, you appreciate them more. They keep you young, and you see the world through better eyes. You can give your children a finer sense of values, too, because if you're lucky, you own values have improved with time.

but lots of women have a soft spot for their first loves, remember.

Anne y La Casa de Los Sueños, pagina 128 de 313

They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?

Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.

Anne watched them as she talked and somehow felt that wind and stars and fireflies were all tangled up together into something unutterably sweet and enchanting.

Anne Shirley, you're only pretending to be grown up. I believe when you're alone you're as much a little girl as you ever were.