Quotes About Youth

You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was.

Lacey shrugged bashfully. "Do you think I'm superficial?" "Well, yeah." I thought of myself standing outside Becca's bedroom, hoping she'd take off her shirt. "But so am I," I added. "So is everyone."

She's the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome.

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

Of course Moana, being a visual account of events in the daily life of a Polynesian youth and his family, has documentary value.

Learning that flowered in days of yore In these our times is thought a bore. Once knowledge was a well to drink of; Now having fun is all men think of.

She kept her eyes on Channing when she could; saw the wounded blankness of all who are ruined young.

I wondered if there was any of that boy left in me, or had the cancer, indeed, eaten him all away?

At twenty-three, Johnny didn't smile without reason or waste time on people he found insincere.

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

Boys do not fully know what is good and what is evil; they do wrong things at first almost innocently. Novelty hides vice from them; there is no one to warn them or give them rules; and they become slaves of sin, while they are learning what sin is.

There is no fool to the old fool.

If you were hurt at a younger age, its the thought that is killing you now

He was one of those young men who possess an impressive store of facts, but no truths.

What is necessary, he explains, is an understanding that the youth are not the Other. It is being able to see your humanity reflected in them.

I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.

At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.

You humanoids worry about your kids being pushed around by bullies, and rightfully so. But think about this: We had bona fide bulls at my school. Yea, monstrous creatures with huge torsos, gargantuan horns - and when they were pissed - gross stuff oozed out of their gigantic noses.

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Losing innocence. Remembering Heaven. That was the essence of Hell

If there's nothing heroic about how you approach your time in office, you can't expect to be held up as any kind of hero to your nation's young people.

sus probabilidades de morir joven eran muy superiores a sus probabilidades de enamorarse, pero curiosamente estaba a gusto con esa situación.