Quotes About Youth

I had a lovely time growing up.

By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.

I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.

Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12.

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up.

Everyone - particularly my female friends I speak to - all say 'I wouldn't be in my twenties again if I was paid.' It's a difficult time.

The cover I was really excited about was 'Seventeen' magazine. To me, it was much bigger than 'Time.' 'Seventeen' was where I wanted to be.

Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.

I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.

Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.

Amy: This time can we... lose the bunk beds? The Doctor: No Bunk beds are cool, a bed with a ladder, you can't beat that!

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

It's not the good that die young, it's the lucky.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop - that is, with a marriage; but when he writes about juveniles, he must stop where he best can.

He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though—and loathed him.

At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on there clothes to keep them from being stolen.

The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.

So endeth this chronicle. It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much further without becoming the history of a man.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72