Quotes About Youth

I was twenty then. What the hell, I used to say, take your time, Bandini. You got ten years to write a book, so take it easy, get out and learn about life, walk the streets. That's your trouble: your ignorance of life.

The younger generation has been a force for change in part because it refuses to accept the status quo as a given. Young people are motivated by what the literary theorist Viktor Shklovsky once called the 'energy of delusion.' If we knew the true magnitude of a task beforehand, we wouldn't undertake it in the first place. Thus, the older we get, and the more experience of challenge and failure that we endure, the less likely we are to attempt the impossible.

These days, we listen to our children, not they to us. Given what we've done to the planet, perhaps they have a point. Tasked with passing the baton, like hundreds of generations before us, my team has fumbled the handoff.

League before landing the job in Charlotte in 1998. He was only thirty

Teenage boys fall in love with girls who have blond hair and blue eyes. Basketball coaches fall in love with players who have a cerebral court sense and a great jump shot.

As Washington, Adams, and Jefferson reached the cusp of adulthood, each exhibited a passion for independence. Each hungered for emancipation from the entanglements of childhood and sought to carve out an autonomous existence. The handmaiden to each young man's zeal for self-mastery was a propulsive ambition that drove him to yearn for more than his father had attained, for more even than his father had ever hoped to achieve.

young desire it, the middle aged are not averse, the old alone are opposed to it [and they soon] will die.

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

The young gentleman is correct," he said. Halt raised an eyebrow. "He may be correct, and he is undoubtedly young. But he's no gentleman." ~Halt and General Sapristi speaking of Will

Mind you, Princess Cassandra used to stalk us when she sneaked out of the castle as a girl.

So we've written a saga," he said. "The Saga of Hal and the Heron Brotherband." "Oh Gorlog help us," Hal muttered.

Yes. A few weeks with people closer to his own age will do him good. After all, folk do say I can be a little grim from time to time." "You, Halt? Grim? Who could say such a thing?" Gilan said. Halt glanced at him suspiciously. Gilan was, all too obviously, just managing to keep a straight face. "You know, Gilan," He said, "sarcasm isn't the lowest form of wit. It's not even wit at all.

Ooooh! Die was raak! Ik heb de roos geraakt,' gilde ze op een toon waarvan zij dacht dat die op meisjesachtige opwinding leek. Ze liet de boog vallen en klapte in haar handen. Arnaut rolde met zijn ogen. 'Aanstelster,' zei hij zachtjes.

Gilan saw his face set in determined lines as he clenched his teeth tightly. The fact that the interruption coincided with a larger than usual lurch from Wolfwind was lost on the younger Ranger. He cast a worried look at his old teacher. Halt had loomed large in his life for years. He was indefatigable. He was all-knowing. He was the most capable man Gilan had ever known. He was also seasick. It was something that always

friend. It would be going too far to say that Erak was fond of the two youngsters. But they had won his respect. The Skandians were a warrior race who valued bravery and valour in battle above all else

Weet je, volgens mij gaat het je nog lukken ook.' Hij keek naar Stig en Hal. 'Een pittige tante, dat zei ik toch al?' Lydia bloosde, en de beide jongens glimlachten. 'Hou je mond,' zei ze. 'Doe jij nou maar wat jou gevraagd wordt met die twee rare soepborden die jij schilden noemt.' Thorn boog zijn hoofd heel even. 'Zoals u wilt, jongedame. Zoals u wilt.

Let go the ropes! Down sail! Do it! Do it! Do it!" There was no real need for those final instructions. The other boys were every bit as tense as he was. But he couldn't restrain himself.

Halt nodded his thanks. "Good work," he said, and Gilan grinned at the praise. Must remember to do that more often, Halt thought. He recalled his own younger days, when words of praise were few and far between...

Het zal u misschien verbazen, heer, maar toen ik zelf zo jong was stotterde ik verschrikkelijk. Het was werkelijk dramatisch, heer, werkelijk waar. Ik kon nauwelijks twee woorden achter elkaar zeggen zonder...' 'Nou, daar ben je inderdaad overheen gegroeid, merk ik,' onderbrak de baron hem droogjes.

Jongens vertrouwden steeds op hun fysieke krachten om problemen op te lossen, terwijl meisjes eerder hun verstand gebruikten.

And there she was, framed against the bright sunlight reflecting from the snow outside and as breathtakingly beautiful as he knew he would always remember her to be, no matter how long he lived or how old they might become.

De ouderen mochten graag zeggen dat er tijdens het wachtlopen weinig te doen was en dat de jongere zeelieden heel goed waren in weinig doen.