Quotes About Youth

I smoked, I drank, I skipped classes, I snuck out, I took drugs, I stole quarts of ice cream for my dorm by breaking into the kitchen storerooms, I made out with my boyfriends in the library basement, I hitchhiked into town and down I-91, and when caught, I weaseled out of all of it . . . There is no need to switch on the fog machine of ambiguity around these facts: I was still a problem child.

I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.

There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.

I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

Ser joven y no ser revolucionario, es una contradicción hasta biológica

Essere giovane e non essere rivoluzionario è una contraddizione perfino biologica." - I vecchi giovani e i giovani vecchi - discorso tenuto nel dicembre del 1972 "Ser joven y no ser revolucionario, es una contradicción hasta biológica." - a una gran cantidad de estudiantes de la Universidad de Guadalajara en México.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Ja sam tada mislio suprotno: "Požuri da ostariš. Strahovito si zelen i gorak." Kako da se oslobodim mladosti koja je u stvari samo beskorisna mana?

And although Margarita lived in a world that predated Technicolor, she always dreamed of the boy in rich pastels.

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

This country makes a man younger than his birthdays.

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

They weren't like dolls, because dolls had no feelings. Kids had feelings, just not any remotely related to yours.

Here were Winnie the Pooh, The Wind in the Willows, A Wrinkle in Time, The Outsiders, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Gone with the Wind, Wuthering Heights. And over here Anne of Green Gables, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Pride and Prejudice, Island of the Blue Dolphins.

In a depressed era when most young adults grasped for any foothold they could find, the nineteen-year-old Smith had already given up a major university scholarship and challenged a prominent magazine's editorial boundaries until he was fired. He wouldn't follow his father's burdened, suit-and-tie path to an early death; he might kill himself, but in a different way.

At 12, still digesting every non-religious book he could get his hands on, he memorized a Latin vocabulary book.

She's not very old but the cigarettes help her to feel like she is.

We grow up into ghosts. No

These are the parts of him I find impossible to cut myself loose from. They are beautiful qualities. But beauty is heavy, and though I'm young I am getting tired from carrying around the bits and shreds of my father's beauty.

Two teenage boys have tattoos on their necks, instantly halving the alienation they'd hoped to achieve.

El said that kids today never sit still long enough to see how the river changes. What, she wondered, was going to happen to people who think they know everything? What's going to happen without chance? Good question.

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.