Quotes About Youth

We don't stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Throughout my life, there has always been a number that sounded old. When I was sixteen, it was twenty-seven; at twenty-nine, it was forty-two; at thirty-eight, it was fifty-two. At sixty-five, however, it was sixty-five.

had the good fortune to come from a generation that had no YA books available. Once you moved beyond children's books there was nowhere to go but adult books.

All Quiet on the Western Front

And so you have more opportunities and more responsibilities than any other generation in history.

Ella era una mezcla entre John Rambo y Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning cruzada con Death Wish 4.

Oh, fuck you and your certainties, Atticus. You're only sure because you're twenty-nine.

After a child's worst day, he or she still looks completely beautiful and innocent in sleep

In his book Men to boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity, Gary Cross asks simply: Where have all the men gone? Like George Will, Victor David Hanson, and others who've posed that question, Professor Cross is no doubt aware that he sounds old and square. But in a land of middle-aged teenagers somebody has to.

It is easier," said Frederick Douglass, "to build strong children than to repair broken men.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Innocence is a better world.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon," Thoreau noted mournfully, "or perchance a palace or temple on the earth, and at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them.

At four Petie took to yelling at the heavenly bodies: —Hey, orbs! Wait for me! or, Orbs…listen to this! A genius, Lou thought; he commanded constellations. Clearly a poet.

The young man proudly names his scars for his lover; the old man alone before a mirror erases his scars with his eyes and sees himself whole

I read with the pure, exhilarating greed of readers sixteen, seventeen years old;

As a young person, and I know it's hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn't do normally if I was just by myself.

Tues. April 16 - Coney Island! Ate only pink things. Threw up. It was worth it.

Nadie es adulto por disfrazarse de adulto. Ni disfrazarse de joven hace joven a nadie. Es evidente que a muchas personas se les hace cuesta arriba aceptar las etapas de su vida con sus realidades concretas.

My last semester at Vassar, I'd taken to wearing nunchakus in a strap-on holster and carrying around a samurai sword — that should tell you all you need to know.

With my little short-shorts a permanent affront, I was quickly becoming a sullen, moody, difficult little bastard.

Tinham sido três tentativas, três falhanços, três restaurantes. Felizmente ainda era novo, e portanto podia descansadamente culpar outros fatores pela minha baixa percentagem de sucesso: maus donos, má localização, clientes feios, decoração horrível… Não me incomodava. Ainda tinhas esperanças.

Right now, a defiant, young, creative generation of Mexican chefs like Eduardo are performing some of the most exciting new cooking anywhere on earth—a mixing of the very old and traditional, with the very new