Quotes About Youth

I was raped in a driveway when I was eleven.... It was a terrible experience because we had all that gravel.

If one day I have wrinkles and I don't like it, I don't know if I'll cut myself but maybe... a little botox, fillers?

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish. But that's only if it's done properly.

As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with the art departments.

You ask a lot of little kids today what they want to be when they grow up and they say "I want to be famous." You ask them for what reason and they don't know or care. I think Andy Warhol got it wrong: in the future so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for fifteen minutes.

The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.

I envied his inspiration, his optimism in focusing back on the painful but glorious days. They were caring days, when we knew what we were living and fighting for and why we needed to suffer and sacrifice. Those were the days when all of us were young, very pure and very sincere.

When little girls ask too many questions their tongues drop off!

Para esta gente nova o que faz falta é a orem e a disciplina e um bom bocado de vitalidade.

Because they were not old enough to serve on committees or wrangle over the order of worship, the children often had a better grasp of what church was all about than the rest of us did.

Just then Rosie skipped down the stairs and across the lobby. Rosie never walked - she tripped or skipped or danced.

From the time he was young, he dressed the way you told him to dress; he acted the way you told him to act; he said the things you told him to say. He's been listening to somebody else tell him what to do... He hasn't changed. He is still listening to somebody else tell him what to do. The problem is, it isn't you any,ore; it's his peers.

When I grow up, I too will go to faraway places, and when I grow old, I too will live beside the sea.

They were young and still starry-eyed, too naive to know that true love and happily ever after were the stuff of fairy tales—and that sometimes the line between frog and prince got pretty blurry

Life through a child's eye has to be supersized to hold the huge wealth of possibility she sees.

matter that the robe was pure silk and had cost a fortune, their daughter wouldn't be caught dead in anything

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I love San Francisco," she said. "I lived there when I was a child.

Quite simply, as a generation, we had too many choices. And when you have a choice, you want to make the right one, especially if you have great expectations.

I wish I could've saved that moment there in that weed-filled yard surrounded by those good-hearted Odoms, with Wishbone sitting there on the cooler in front of us. Just pack it into one of Bertha's canning jars to keep in my room. Then when I was feeling bad about myself or loaded down with all my troubles, I could open it up and breathe in the goodness of it and I'd feel better.

I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

A young man in a white coat was pouring some rich fragrant liquid into her cup. She accepted it with gratitude and resignation, for it was strong and bitter, almost medicinal, and as she drank she was conscious that it was doing her good. Tea is more healthy than alcohol and much cheaper, she reflected, and there must be thousands of people who know this.