Quotes About Youth

Yes," Howie said solemnly. "I can teach you how to be more 'street'". "For God's sake…" "Or is it 'urban'? I can't remember. Anyway, I can teach you, grasshopper. Or hip-hopper.

Homecoming's stupid." And it is. Buch of kids looking for excuses to grope eachother all night.

But it's high school. It's not real love, or at least you can't be sure it's real love. Real love is messy and complicated and brutal. It's been tested. Zik and Michelle have never been tested by anything mroe than being separated by a couple of classes.

Teens had the world's best built-in poker face: a hormone-fueled, constant glare of bored contempt.

I jam my hands into my pockets because otherwise I'm afraid I'll try to hold hers. That's the sort of stupid thing I would do.

These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.

There is no more effective way to destroy the leadership potential of young officers and noncommissioned officers than to deny them opportunities to make decisions appropriate for their assignments.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong: and a boy deprived of a father's care often develops, if he escapes the perils of youth, an independence and a vigour of thought which may restore in after life the heavy loss of early days.

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

But, Jesus, Tommy, what do you expect me to say? I grew up with you. When we were kids your fly was open more often than the twenty-four-hour laundromat. If your dick had been a gun you could have outdrawn Doc Holliday.

MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever.

Time ever mocks all youthful hopes; He laughs at ever plan youth makes; He buries fame and honor deep In grave of hope--too late youth wakes.

O happy childhood! blessed youth! But once we know thy potent power; But once we live all careless free; No cross to mar our love-lit bower.

When we are young, our parents run our life, when we get older, our children do.

Voluptuous bloom and fragrance rare The summer to its rose may bring; Far sweeter to the wooing air The hidden violet of spring. Still, still that lovely ghost appears, Too fair, too pure, to bid depart; No riper love of later years Can steal its beauty from the heart.

My sadness will but make thee weep; Thou'lt win no smile from me; So young a plant 'twere sin to keep Beneath woe's poison tree.

Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.

Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.

But there are also those who are in the category that I hope stories like La Boheme can help with, and they say, "It was beautiful, it was extraordinary, it was exquisite, it was naïve, and it was perfect. But it could only be for a certain amount of time.

I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green Towering over your head Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes And she's gone

Well, she was just seventeen You know what I mean And the way she looked Was way beyond compare

I thought I was unhappy before… I was just a stupid young kid that didn't know what happiness was. I was like a snot in a candy store who not only wanted all he could eat, but the whole thing. Life is stupid. Stupid. Or at least to this point, mine is.