Quotes About Youth

Once upon a time we all walked on the golden road. It became an honest motorway, through the Land of Lost Delight; shadow and sunshine were blessedly mingled, and each turn and dip discovered a sparkling appeal and a new loveliness to eager hearts and unspoiled eyes.

Los únicos momentos en los que siento que estoy envejeciendo son cuando miro las fotografías de las revistas. Los héroes y las heroínas me están pareciendo demasiado jóvenes.

The mention of college gave a new direction to Gilbert's thoughts, and they talked for a time of their plans and wishes... gravely, earnestly, hopefully, as youth loves to talk, while the future is yet an untrodden path full of wonderful possibilities.

The mention of college gave a new direction to Gilbert's thoughts, and they talked for a time of their plans and whishes... gravely, earnestly, hopefully, as youth loves to talk, while the future is yet an untrodden path full of wonderful possibilities.

So many aspects of the Jazz Age recall our own: political corruption and complacency; fear of outsiders; life-changing technologies; cults of youth, excess, consumerism and celebrity; profit as a new religion on the one hand and the easy availability of credit on the other; astonishing affluence and yet a huge section of society unable to move out of poverty.

by the time I reached Nice, I felt my spirits fail. My youthful impetuousness had long since been destroyed: ennui had sapped my strength.

I would feel deeply the elegant satisfaction of being caressed by that gawky boy, and I would take his face in both my hands and kiss him hard, as if I could draw from those lips the very strength and sweetness he did not know he had.

We were the coolest people in McDonald's. We had a lot going for us. We'd found the secret glue that held all things together. We were young and beautiful. We were married now. We were about to go home, get out of our monkey suits, get naked, and get wasted.

Cancer isn't the worst thing that can happen to a person. And neither is dying young. Taking life for granted, living badly-- these things seem far worse to me. In many ways- ways that count- I'm the luckiest girl in the world.

When push came to shove, the yacht kids were just too WASP for him. He was a jewel of Kazakh youth, he liked to say—studied history so he could boast about Mongolian hordes. He'd mailed a cheek swab to some genetic-testing service, and the results suggested he was Genghis Khan's nephew. Some generations removed. But basically, yeah, he said.

I thought: Enh, they'll get used to it. Children grow up. Children leave.

Helplessness was the one true fountain of youth.

Drinking Shirley Temple with my Mary Janes on, let's say that every possibility waits

One by one most kids I knew quit drawing and never drew again. It left behind too much evidence.

How old do you have to be to make a bad drawing?

She, Henry Horesman's daughter, was to tell the most important person in this behemoth country, whether or not the vaccine that he'd allowed every person under the age of 20 in the USSR to take (a mind boggling 77 million young people), a vaccine given to him by a scientist from his archenemy - the US - was safe and effective? If it was a flop, or if she misrepresented its efficacy, there would be world war.

Beard," said Patrick, which was their school slang for "I don't believe you.

When I was your age I met a man older than myself, quite a bit older. I fell in love with him. Really in love. I know people say it's just puppy love at that age, but I was in love properly. It lasted for years. It was the most powerful feeling I can ever remember. At that age one has no defenses. It just overwhelmed me.

intelligence nowadays is all about application: it is the ability 'to take in a complex system and learn its rules on the fly'. For young people, this ability is second nature. Any fool knows that, if you need a new and unfamiliar VCR programmed in a hurry, you commandeer any small passing child to do it.

Dante was young enough to be her son . . . maybe even her grandson. She had no business responding to him at all.

If this is a dream, why aren't I young and handsome for you? You are young and handsome to me, she said huskily, and reached up to slip one hand around his neck. I like you just the way you are. I find you sexy just as you are. I want you just as your are.

What I've found is that the ones who had it rough when younger tend to bounce back better when life kicks them in the teeth as an adult, which you know happens to everyone.

Este trist s? vezi când tân?rul îÈ™i pierde cele mai bune speranÈ›e È™i vise, când din faÈ›a lui se risipeÈ™te v?lul roz, prin care obiÈ™nuia s? priveasc? lucrurile È™i sentimentele oamenilor, chiar dac? r?mîne speranÈ›a c? va schimba vechile greÈ™eli cu altele noi, la fel de trec?toare È™i, de aceea, la fel de pl?cute...

Move children! Vamanos!