Quotes About Youth

Als je jong bent, denk je dat er normale mensen bestaan, maar dat jij de pech hebt ze niet te kennen. Later kom je erachter dat dat onzin is, dat er geen normale mensen bestaan. Er bestaan alleen patiënten. Sommige patiënten weten zich staande te houden ten koste van andere patiënten en die noemen we daarom geen patiënten. Die noemen we geslaagd

Children grow fast in this low gravity. But they don't age so quickly—they'll live longer than we do." Floyd stared in fascination at the self-assured little lady, noting the graceful carriage and the unusually delicate bone structure.

Because each of us is the sum of all we have ever experienced. Only the very young have a clean slate.

It was good to be alive; it was better to be young; it was best of all to be in love.

Because each of us is the sum of all we have ever experienced. Only the very young have a clean slate. The rest of us must live forever with everything we have ever been.

The recipe for a long, happy life: consult with old philosophers and young doctors, consort with old friends and young women.

Their little universe is very young, and its god is still a child. But it is too soon to judge them; when We return in the Last Days, We will consider what should be saved.

Sometimes, Jean thought a little wearily, he filled to perfection the classic recipe for a small boy: "a noise surrounded by dirt.

To my precious daughter Nicole, and all the young people of the world, I offer one simple insight. In my life I have found two things of priceless worth—learning and loving. Nothing else—not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake—can possibly have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.

It was a non-Hermian joke that any child who showed signs of interest in art, philosophy, or abstract mathematics was plowed straight back into the hydroponic farms.

Jean thought a little wearily, he filled to perfection the classic recipe for a small boy: "a noise surrounded by dirt.

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.

It's the Baker Street division of the detective police force... There's more work to be got out of one of those little beggars than out of a dozen of the force,' Holmes remarked. 'The mere sight of an official-looking person seals men's lips. These youngsters, however, go everywhere and hear everything. They are as sharp as needles, too; all they want is organization.

It is hard luck on a young fellow to have expensive tastes, great expectations, aristocratic connections but no actual money in his pocket, and no profession by which he may earn any.

If she were seventeen at the time of her father's disappearance she must be seven-and-twenty now--a sweet age, when youth has lost its self-consciousness and become a little sobered by experience.

Ahora debía de tener veintisiete, una edad espléndida, cuando la juventud ha perdido su arrogancia y se vuelve algo más sensata gracias a la experiencia.

Got it. You're fourteen. I'm proud you can count that high. It's a testament to the modern American education system. But I should probable point out that you're not the only one. I'm told you go to a school with a whole class of-get this-kids who are fourteen.- Ash

though we can educate the younger generation, we can even command them, we cannot control their lives, much as we think we'd do a better job of it.

If the Prodigy Mozart had any notion how much torment he might cause people who had done no harm to him, he surely would have confined himself to stickball with his friends." "I believe that particular piece was

Maybe being so short has made me age slower, or something.

Our children grow old and elbow us into the grave.

Sister's gone to school, I said to Sally. Ah, said Sally. And will she come home again?

The reassuring bulk of the college buildings showed ahead of her, and she looked fondly up at them and smiled. As she had never been before, she was now alone, and grown-up, and powerful, and not at all afraid.

Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see you cup of stars again; don't do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl.