Quotes About Youth

I get a lot from all young people. I make movies for young people. If I made pictures for people my age, no one would see them. I hang with young people all the time.

I used to beat up kids and bite kids and do stuff all the time.

One of my favorite songs I've ever done is "Who Says," and I was 17 when I recorded that song. It was just so exactly what I felt, during that time. That's when I knew how powerful music is.

At some point in time, in the future, people are going to refer to the Step Up films as the films they grew up on. Hopefully, that inspires them to get in dance films that are being made.

But really, he told himself. There are just some people who don't seem like they ever could have been young. It's like trying to imagine my grandparents as little kids. Or—like the guy who played Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies. No way he was ever young.

And sometimes it takes a kid to show adults the truth.

The only throne that kid's gonna sit on is the kind you flush.

He listened gravely to the discussion of possible danger, but in truth, he paid little heed. Silvanoshei was young, and the young know they will live forever.

K?zlar?n her biri tüm pencereleri sonuna kadar açm??lard?; temiz hava almak, karamsar, sönük, s?k?c? ortamlar?nda bir lokma özgürlük rüzgar? estirmek istiyorlard?. Sonra açt?klar? pencerelerden kendilerini tepetaklak aÅŸa?? yuvarlam??lar ve kanayan uzuvlar ve kalplerle öylece kalakalm??lard?.

Très vite dans ma vie il a été trop tard. A dix-huit ans il était déjà trop tard. Entre dix-huit ans et vingt-cinq ans mon visage est parti dans une direction imprévue. A dix-huit ans j'ai vieilli.

We tell each other things that have no relation to the afternoon's events or the coming night but that relate to God, to his absence that is so present, like the breasts of the young girl, so young before the immensity of what is to come.

Very early in my life it was too late. It was already too late when I was eighteen. Between eighteen and twenty five my face took off in a new direction. I grew old at eighteen. I don't know if it's the same for everyone, I've never asked...

eux ils entendaient leur jeunesse frapper à leurs portes comme un oiseau enfermé.[...] C'était l'hymne de l'avenir, des départs, du terme de l'impatience. Ce qu'ils attendaient c'était de rejoindre cet air né du vertige des villes pour lequel il était fait, où il se chantait, des villes croulantes, fabuleuses, pleines d'amour.

Tengo quince años y medio, en ese país las estaciones no existen, vivimos en una estación única, cálida, monótona, nos hallamos en la larga zona cálida de la tierra, no hay primavera, no hay renovación

Très vite dans la vie il a été trop tard. À dix-huit ans il était déjà trop tard.

Sólo me soporto con ese par de zapatos y aún ahora me veo así, esos tacones altos son los primeros de mi vida, son bonitos, han eclipsado a todos los zapatos que los han precedido, los zapatos para correr y jugar, planos, de lona blanca.

Olhem as areias mortas dos desertos, o corpo morto das crianças: a imortalidade não passa por ali, ela para e contorna.

One night (I was eleven years old at the time) he came and shook me from my sleep and announced, with the same grumbling laconism that he would have employed to predict a good harvest to his tenants, that I should rule the world.

Era demasiado joven para sospechar que la existencia no está hecha de súbitos impulsos y de obstinada constancia sino de compromisos y de olvidos

Era demasiado jovem para ter ideia que de que a existência não é feita de arrebatamentos súbitos e de obstinada constância, mas de compromissos e de esquecimentos.

A young, handsome emperor in one period, and an old sickly one in his final days

decididos a no aprender más de lo necesario para cazar una sinecura, pobres diablos cuya fermentación de espíritu no era más que un brote de sangre que desaparecería con la juventud. Poco a poco, este desdén se hizo extensivo a sus amigos cabalistas, espíritus huecos hinchados de viento, atiborrados de palabras que no entendían y que regurgitaban en fórmulas.

Ugh. Don't even get me started. It's like teachers think we have nothing better to do with our lives than to come home and do more schoolwork.) [SirLeo] (It's coz they're old and have no lives and want to punish those who do.)

I can barely breathe. I feel like I'm going to explode. Jake Wilder is kissing me. French-kissing me. Is he even supposed to be French-kissing me for the play? I thought… Oh, who cares if he's supposed to or not. He is, that's all that matters.