Quotes About Youth

When you haven't been in the world long, it's hard to comprehend what disasters are at the origin of a sense of disaster: maybe you don't even feel the need to. Adults

I've known how to whistle since I was five years old.

Quando si è al mondo da poco è difficile capire quali sono i disastri all'origine del nostro sentimento del disastro, forse non se ne sente nemmeno la necessità. I grandi, in attesa di domani, si muovono in un presente dietro al quale c'è ieri o l'altro ieri o al massimo la settimana scorsa: al resto non vogliono pensare. I piccoli non sanno il significato di ieri, dell'altro ieri, e nemmeno di domani, tutto è questo, ora.

Ahead of us were many hours when no one in our families would look for us. When I think of the pleasure of being free, I think of the start of that day, of coming out of the tunnel and finding ourselves on a road that went straight as far as the eye could see, the road that, according to what Rino had told Lila, if you got to the end arrived at the sea. I felt joyfully open to the unknown.

But then, in Piazza di Carbonara, from stones she moved on to weapons, and it became the place where men fought to the last drop of blood. Beggars and gentlemen and princes hurried to see people killing each other in revenge. When some handsome youth fell, pierced by a blade beaten on the anvil of death, immediately beggars, bourgeois citizens, kings and queens offered applause that rose to the stars.

I grandi, in attesa di domani, si muovono in un presente dietro al quale c'è ieri o l'altro ieri o al massimo la settimana scorsa: al resto non vogliono pensare. I piccoli non sanno il significato di ieri, dell'altro ieri, e nemmeno di domani, tutto è questo, ora: la strada è questa, il portone è questo, le scale sono queste, questa è mamma, questo è papà, questo è il giorno, questa la notte.

Suntem obligaÈ›i s? facem atâtea lucruri stupide înc? de mici crezând c? sunt esenÈ›iale.

Substancialmente falou que o problema da juventude era a falta de olhos para se ver e de sentimentos para se sentir com objetividade.

La belleza che Cerullo aveva nella testa fin da piccola non ha trovato sbocco, Greco, e le è finita tutta in faccia, nel petto, nelle cosce e nel culo, posti dove passa presto ed è come se non ce l'avessi mai avuta

Frumusetea pe care Cerullo o avea in minte inca de mica nu s-a manifestat, Greco, si i-a ajuns toata pe fata, in piept, pe coaste si pe cur, locuri de unde trece repede si e ca si cum n-ai avut-o niciodata.

Krása, kterou mÄ›la Cerullová odmali?ka v hlavÄ›, nenaÅ¡la cestu ven, Grecová, celá se jí vrazila do obli?eje, do prsou, do stehen a do prdele, do míst, kde rychle uvadne a je to, jako bys ji nikdy nemÄ›la.

When some handsome youth fell, pierced by a blade beaten on the anvil of death, immediately beggars, bourgeois citizens, kings and queens offered applause that rose to the stars. Ah, the violence: tearing, killing, ripping.

Studieren galt als ein Trick der pfiffigsten jungen Leute zur Vermeidung harter Arbeit.

I feel no nostalgia for our childhood: it was full of violence.

You're my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.

I had been a girl who felt lost, this was true. All the hopes of youth seemed to have been destroyed, I seemed to be falling backwards towards my mother, my grandmother, the chain of mute or angry women I came from. Missed opportunities.

La belleza que Cerullo llevaba en la cabeza desde niña no ha encontrado salidas, Greco, y le ha ido a parar toda en la cara, en el pecho, en los muslos y el culo, sitios donde se pasa muy pronto y después es como si nunca la hubiese tenido".

Lepota koju je ?erulova imala u glavi odmalena nije našla put, Grekova, i završila se cela na licu, na grudima, bedrima, dupetu, na mestima gde brzo prolazi i kao da nikada nije postojala." Elena Ferante, "Moja genijalna prijateljica

Children don't know the meaning of yesterday, of the day before yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night.

Not for you," Lila replies ardently, "you're my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.

The beauty of mind that Cerullo had from childhood didn't find an outlet, Greco, and it has all ended up in her face, in her breasts, in her thighs, in her ass, places where it soon fades and it will be as if she had never had it.

We were fourteen, fifteen years old, and already knew the importance of silence in love.

Los problemas de los jóvenes sólo pueden resolverse por la vía de la educación, jamás por la fuerza, la violencia o la corrupción. Ésa ha sido mi norma constante de acción y el objeto de mi entrega total, en tiempo y energías, durante el desempeño de la rectoría. El rector, Ing. Javier Barros Sierra, texto de su renuncia a la H. Junta de Gobierno de la UNAM, el 23 de septiembre de 1968.

Qué poca cosa, qué inferior se habrá sentido el presidente de México ante la voz de los estudiantes, para acallarla con armas! Los jóvenes no tenían más armas que su juventud. Sólo a balazos aniquiló Días Ordaz las peticiones que no podía atender. ¡Cómo habrán herido las consignas del CNH al gobierno, que les respondió con ráfagas de plomo!