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Quotes About Youth

I think when we shot 'Tokyo Drift' I was a little too young to really understand what made Han who he is, and then I got older, and you start to make a little bit of money, and you realize that money will never buy you happiness.
~ Sung Kang
Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
~ Emil Cioran
I've always been a bit of a daredevil, even as a little girl with a pretty high pain tolerance and things like that.
~ Caroline Buchanan
The thing about being a university teacher is that you're fairly tolerant about young people saying things they shouldn't have said.
~ Mary Beard
We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species.
~ Andrew Vachss
'The Hobbit' by J. R. R. Tolkien was the first book I enjoyed. I was 14 and when I finished I started it again.
~ Nigel Lythgoe
I survived many a youth hostel bunk room reading Tolstoy by flashlight.
~ Maria Semple
I had a brother six years older than me, so I wasn't just listening to teenybopper stuff. My brother had the cooler music, but my parents had the Burt Bacharach, Tom Jones, the Association, the Fifth Dimension; these groups were un-cool, but I secretly loved them.
~ Jill Sobule
I'll be Spider-Man. I'm just kidding, I love Tom Holland.
~ Noah Schnapp
Metaphor, Evie thought as she stepped off the curb as the light changed, was for the young. Or, at any rate, for the younger than she.
~ Sarah Blake
I am old. And tired of the terrible clarity of the young.
~ Sarah Blake
The young] desire not merely to be understood, but to be understood by telepathy; not merely to be permitted to tell their troubles, but to be prevailed on to do so. The more care they take to conceal their feelings, the greater their disillusionment if one fails to discover them.
~ Sarah Caudwell
young people no longer "believe in the old standards and authorities, and they're not intelligent enough, many of them, to put a code of morals and conduct in place of the sanctions that have been destroyed for them.
~ Sarah Churchwell
But anyone who has been that young knows that the great grief of love is that your body feels the most when it knows the least.
~ Sarah Dunant
She is only a young woman who did not want to become a nun. The world is full of them.
~ Sarah Dunant
The only time to move to New York City is when you're fresh out of college, unless you happen to be rich. If you're rich, you can move to New York whenever you want.
~ Sarah Dunn
The only time to move to New York City is when you're fresh out of college, unless you happen to be rich. If you're rich, you can move to New York whenever you want.
~ Sarah Dunn
Such command and honesty! Your figures are full of emotion, for instance, here – points at the panel – the figure of Judas on his knees, wringing his hands in self-hatred and pleading for forgiveness… Who would have thought that someone your age, a miller at that, could put so much into a figure!
~ Sarah Emily Miano
A fourteen year old to steal my virginity on the moor and rape me till I come.
~ Sarah Kane
She'd had sex with a boy she wasn't going to marry. She'd fallen in love with him, knowing that it would never work. Right now the pain seemed worth it because she was in his arms.
~ Sarah Langan
In our dreams we are always young.
~ Sarah Louise Delany
Dying young can really help an art career along. It's the careerist's ultimate paradox.
~ Sarah Manguso
I look at young people and marvel at their ignorance of what's coming, and the old people look at me.
~ Sarah Manguso
In the morning I wake amid fading scenes of different characters, different settings, all restatements of that first desire, a ghost who haunts me as the beauty he was at sixteen.
~ Sarah Manguso