Quotes About Youth

Ever since boyhood, I'd feared wasting any happiness that came my way; I'd always wanted to save some of it for later. This had caused me to miss many opportunities.

?htiyarl???mda çekilmez bir adam olaca??m hakk?ndaki iltifat?na te?ekkür ederim. Ama bu tahminin do?ru ç?kmayacak san?r?m. Çünkü ihtiyarlayaca??m? kim söyledi? Hep genç kalaca??m.

Ali ovi su, kao sve neznalice u tim godinama, bili od onih što smatraju da je smijati se u lice ?ovjeku kojeg prvi put sre?eš svojevrsan pokazatelj superiornosti.

You were just too young. And in the wrong place at the wrong time in my life." "A likely excuse. I haven't been 'too young' for some time, and it's taken you nine years to even kiss me again. At this rate, you'll only advance to ravishing me when I'm forty." He dearly hoped he'd be ravishing her at forty. And thirty-five and twenty-nine and the day after tomorrow. Or today. That would certainly move his process along.

I have learned that trust comes and goes and love comes before hate. Elise age 10.

I think that an objective reader may see how in the society to which I was exposed as a black youth here in America, for me to wind up in a prison was really just about inevitable. It happens to so many thousands of black youth.

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.

It showed me how any country's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women—especially its young women.

Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how do you think I feel to have to tell you, 'We, my generation, sat around like a knot on a wall while the whole world was fighting for its human rights - and you've got to be born into a society where you still have that same fight.' What did we do, who preceded you? I'll tell you what we did. Nothing. And don't you make the same mistake we made....

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school drop-outs are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did. And they inevitably move into more and more, worse and worse, illegality and immorality.

She's wearing character shoes for dancing and the combination of high heels with tight terry-cloth shorts makes her look like a teen prostitute in a TV movie of the week. It's a good look.

The sky is turning from black to gray and I stop to remember this melancholy moment for my acting. I huddle on a bench in my big thrift-store overcoat and my painful hair, watching my breath make clouds and thinking Holden Caulfield-y thoughts, like how come you never see any baby pigeons? This is what those people on black-and-white French postcards must feel like. I find myself craving a cup of coffee and a cigarette despite the fact that I neither drink coffee nor smoke.

Even such is time, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age, and dust; Who in the dark and silent grave When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days. And from which earth and grave and dust, The Lord will raise me up I trust. —Sir Walter Ralegh's poetry

I am a child who is getting on.

Si l'enfant que tu étais rencontrait l'homme que tu es devenu, crois-tu qu'ils s'entendraient bien ensemble, qu'ils pourraient être complices ?

The younger religions are usually the most violent, which means less tolerant of those who don't quack exactly as they do.

Bowie sat down for an interview with his Hunger costar Susan Sarandon and explained, "When you're young and you're determined to crack the big dream of 'I have a big statement and the world needs to hear my statement,' there's something a bit irresponsible about your attitude to the future. A nonrecognition that the future exists. I think it's important for youth to have that. My son keeps me remembering that there is a tomorrow.

The only thing scarier than death is the disappearance from youth.

It went from fuck music to fuck-you music.

First you are young, then you are middle aged; then you are old; then you are wonderful. Lady Diana Cooper

My body betrays me. It ages, I don't

in an old woman and an old man he will be able to see a certain maturity and comeliness; and the attractive loveliness of young persons he will be able to look on with chaste eyes; and many such things will present themselves, not pleasing to every man, but to him only who has become truly familiar with nature and her works.

Just as apples when unripe are torn from trees, but when ripe and mellow drop down, so it is violence that takes life from young men, ripeness from old. This ripeness is so delightful to me that, as I approach nearer to death, I seem, as it were, to be sighting land, and to be coming to port at last after a long voyage.

For as I like a man in whom there is something of the old, so I like a man in whom there is something of the young; and he who follows this maxim, in body will possibly be an old man but he will never be an old man in mind.