Quotes About Youth

Children and fools _always_ speak the truth. The deduction is plain --adults and wise persons _never_ speak it.

A trifle after noon the boys borrowed a small skiff from a citizen who was absent

What a head for just a boy to have! If I had Tom Sawyer's head, I wouldn't trade it off to be a duke, nor mate of a steamboat, nor clown in a circus, nor nothing I can think of.

In these were gathered together the brightest young minds I could find, and I kept agents out raking the country for more, all the time. I was training a crowd of ignorant folk into experts—experts in every sort of handiwork and scientific calling.

Monday morning always found him so—because it began another week's slow suffering in school.

Un pauvre garçon qui n'avait rien d'autre à proposer alla jusqu'à dire, avec une fierté manifeste à ce souvenir : « Eh bien, moi, une fois, Tom Sawyer m'a battu ! »

Había una canción en todos los corazones; y si el corazón era joven, la canción asomaba a los labios.

It was the sort of time that all the Offal Court boys had, therefore he supposed it was the correct and comfortable thing.

By and by Tom's reading and dreaming about princely life wrought such a strong effect upon him that he began to act the prince, unconsciously.

ain't any real difference between triplets and an insurrection. "The Babies

Consider well the proportion of things: it is better to be a young June bug than an old bird of paradise.

For some, especially young people, irritability is a more prominent experience than sadness in depression.

Unfortunately nothing happened with the girls. They just ran off giggling into the night. No digits, no dates, not even their names, leaving me feeling dumb and sad, a bit like a broken thermos- fine on the outside, but on the inside nothing but busted glass.

That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.

And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.

Our footsteps run, and I don't want them to end. I want to run and laugh and feel like this forever. I want to avoid any awkward moment when the realness of reality sticks its fork into our flesh, leaving us standing there, together. I want to stay here, in this moment, and never go to other places, where we don't know what to say or what to do.

How 'bout a kiss, Saumensch ? -- Rudy Steiner

It's my heart that is tired. A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this.

As always, she was carrying the washing. Rudy was carrying two buckets of cold water, or as he put it, two buckets of future ice.

An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.

People have defining moments, i suppose, especially when they're children.

You should know it yourself- a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.

I'm twenty years old and look at me-- there isn't a thing I want to do

We're silent now, both waiting, till I remind myself that I'm the older one and should therefore initiate conversation. But I don't. I don't want to waste this girl with idle chitchat. She's beautiful.