Youth Quotes
All I cared about that summer were suntans, beaches, boys and booze.
Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.
To impatient youth, all things took for ever and any kind of waiting was torture. Pg. 221
As we got closer to Montauk, she seemed to grow younger, years of worry and work disappearing from her face. Her eyes turned the color of the sea.
She had the wild look of someone who hadn’t slept in twenty-four hours, with purplish semicircles underneath both her eyes. Being eighteen was like being made out of rubber and cocaine.
I was there laughing and joking with everyone else, but it’s like there was some part of mestanding back, watching, thinking, “Is this as good as it gets?
One of the greatest challenge facing young people today, is thelarge scale availability of half truth’s and manipulated facts
If young people are our greatest asset in a war that must be won then wemust be willing to extricate them at whatever cost from the clutchesof those who seek to exploit their weaknesses
I cherished her individuality, that spark of independence no child should lose to life's restrictions and parameters.
They were Archer's second set of children an d paragons of contemporary teenage cynicism. They enjoyed setting fire to the tails of tender thoughts.
Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere... - Pg. 82
Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?
What more is required than a kind of stupid, insensitive doggedness, as lover, as writer, together with a readiness to fail and fail again?
Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
With every breath, I breathe in so much of inspiration. I feel if there is one thing as free and as important as oxygen, it's inspiration.
That's what is was to be young — to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.
A friend once told Megan that we are always seventeen years old, waiting for our lives to begin. More than ever, clutching to this man, Megan understood that.
There's a reason why I've spent one-third of my life doing this. My dream is to meet and connect 3 billion young people of the world to information and opportunities in my lifetime.
Sometimes it's only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world.
Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can't understand or value her until she goes off with someone else, never to return.
...love, all at once and much, much too completely. It's like you suddenly turn a blinding light on something that had always been half a shadow...
There was no need to hurry that future—yet the length of his own youth pressed upon him. Whatever he was to do next he wanted to begin now. But how to begin and on what?
My heart swells with emotion each time I recall the sweetness of my youth!
The curse of having young people about the house was that they were always so redolent of possibility.
I want to be Tragedy, I want to be Juliet, I want to be Romeo. Thus with a kiss I die.
Well, sir, it is precisely my notion that one sees and learns most of all by observing our younger generations.
You think all teenagers care about are musicians and movie stars?Spend some time in Wisconsin.We'll blow your socks off.
As a very young person, I was ready and willing to explore and try new things, unhampered by the daily routines that adults so often feel obligated to adhere to.
The Fanatics have dirtied its fiber, and their mottos have reated a thick layer of mold over its wounds, one of total intolerance, feeding on the indoctrination of the youth cliques.
When you've made up your mind, no use lagging behind, go ahead and no relenting, Let your youth have free reign, it won't come again, so be bold and no repenting.
...because when you're young, you don't really believe you'll ever be anything other than young.
We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up.
A need for many candles may arise in every nation’s history to light up the darkness in the country. Most of the time, the youth is the very candles themselves!
Youth is a terrible thing: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and fancy costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but only half understand
Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà!
...I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17...