Quotes About Youth

Ask any child from Chile to sketch something, anything at all. Before any human figure, a cloud, a tree, they'll fill the upper space with an array of jagged peaks.

It's a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructable in our wake, and at the same time, are drawn to things that kill: whiskey and cigarette, unprotected sex and deep fried burritos. It's true that you can get away with drinking and smoking and sunbathing when you're in your teens and twenties, and it's true that rock stars are free to die at twenty-nine, but a lit star needs a long life.

I am Otomiya Haine. I'm a spirited fifteen year old!!

If you're going to be a narcissistic schmuck, kid, don't bother studying Faulkner. Go straight to Brett Easton Ellis. He's the role model you need.

The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

The old are in a second childhood.

When the soldier returns from the wars, even though he has white hair, he very soon finds a young wife. But a woman has only one summer; if she does not make hay while the sun shines, no one will afterwards have anything to say to her, and she spends her days consulting oracles that never send her a husband.

Old men are children for a second time.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

Guaranteed to remove wrinkles.

a twinkle in her eye. "Someday I may be old too!

Don't listen when they scoff That you are too old and I am young, For I am old enough to know better And you are young enough not to care.

We're gonna be … I mean people like you and me … we're gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists.

Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students, some of them tell me that their lives would be totally different if their father was around.

The manner of his life was of no importance. What affected her was that he had once been young. That he had grown old, and was now dead. That was all. Youth and vigour had come to that. Youth and vigour always came to that. Everything came to that.

I always knew what was most important to me. When I was growing up, nothing was more important than golf, but that's the attitude of a young person who hasn't a care in the world. Later on I figured it out. Family was first. Always. Then golf and business come after.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

My desire was to leave home in an organized way. Because I was still just a kid, I decided that the best course for independence was to mind my own business and make my own money. I would do any kind of work. I was not shy at all about picking up a shovel and digging.

Wie van jullie is aan de pil, lieve kinderen? Hand opsteken. Wie van jullie heeft een geslachtsziekte, lieve kinderen? Hand opsteken. Wie van jullie is vandaag op het schoolplein in de reet geneukt, lieve kinderen? Hand opsteken.

De bloem van de eeuwige jeugd', mompelt hij. Er dringen zich meer herinneringen aan hem op, ook aangename. In het moeras van zijn geheugen zitten ook mooie herinneringen verstopt. Als je je geluk kunt herinneren, dan heeft het bestaan.