When you’re still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

Joy is the fountain of youth.

I just got a world record. It has music from Europe, Asia, North America, all over the globe. Michael Phelps also has a world record, but you can’t dance to it like you can mine....

If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.

We can heal. Perhaps we can return to that same place we once stood, when we were both young and innocent.

As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning to use the brand-new gift of language. Being so...

All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself

The fact Locke didn’t die instantly may be taken as proof that a human male can survive having every last warm drop of blood within his body rush instantly to the vicinity of his cheeks.

Thats the spirit-one part brave,three parts fool.

… on the lawn one late summer day, her pale hair tangled because she’d cry if anyone tried to brush it, spinning around and around until she got so dizzy she fell in a pile...

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don’t last your whole life.

your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.

It didn’t matter he was brilliant and dedicated and good. He was a child. He was young.No he isn’t, thought Ender. Small, yes. Bur Bean has been through a battle with a whole army depending...

Some people are just sad when there aren’t talking squirrels.” —Lily Winter

Who said death is dead? He’s fully alive, traveling around the world, throwing shadows and soaking in the sun. Visiting the young and old; placing bets and dicing regrets, for the worse or a better...

I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well, a contradiction I never figured out.

We were young(ish) when we first fell in love. I was however old I am now minus the number of years it has been since that first day.

At a certain age […] you start thinking you might have learned something when you were young if you hadn’t already been so smart.

Incarceration is when nobody writes a happy ending for a woman without a man.

Your mysterious young friend, whose name you have never told me, but whose picture really fascinates me, never thinks.

When I was young, I used to wish I would fit in… I’m glad I didn’t get my wish.

When you’re thirty you’re old enough to know better,but still young enough to go ahead and do it.

I don’t know what the old you was like, but the new you, the older you than the old you, is new and fresh.

I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?

The old think the young are lazy and entitled. The young think the old are incompetent and inefficient.

It was the world-without-adults daydream. In my dream I’d never quite figured out where the adults went but we kids were free to roam, to help ourselves to anything we wanted. We’d pick up a...

The way he talked about moving south reminded us of the Joads in Grapes of Wrath. He was a smart kid, but all he was thinking about was peaches.-Only Shot At A Good Tombstone, page...

I realized that whilst crying over the loss, the living did not seem adequate because they were not my loved one. The room full of strangers hurt me profusely. Even as I saw thousands of...

A positive attitude is most easily arrived at through a… both past and future, and enter into naka-ima — the eternal present.

We were young and in love. Well, at least I was young. I was fourteen and she was ninety-four. She tried to act like she never remembered we were dating, probably due to her dementia.

If you have ever come up against Nothing you have no idea how it can scare you out of your wits. When I was a child I used to be afraid of Something in the...

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.

But then I was young, and to be young means to undertake to demolish the world and to have the gall to wish to erect a new and better one in its place.

Here, dragon-dragon-dragon!” he yelled.Lily stared in amazement. Well, that was bold, she thought, and stupid.

When I was young I wanted so much to be like her. What a blessing are those moments when there is nothing to worry about, no thought of trouble or grief in the world.

It could be yesterdaywhen I was less in loveI thinkFor I didn’t see you in the mirrorbehind mewhile getting dressed.The way your hands couldn’t stay awayand our bodies always found their ways back to each...

Who were these people, all of them young couples, a few fabulous ones, tall thin-haired blondes with toned men in perfectly pressed jeans — neither fearing the loss of the other.

Learning makes you to stay forever young.Commit yourself to lifelong learning.

Children are often like hostages under the care of authority, with spankings and groundings nudging them like guns pointed at their skulls, threatening to shoot if the wrong words are uttered.

Dermatology … this young daughter of medicine …

Morality in the general is well enough known by men, but the particular refinements of virtue are unknown by most persons; thus the majority of parents, without knowing it and without intending it, give very...

I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

What you did when you were young could kill you. It just might take years to do it.

The amount of time we give to something indicates it’s importance to us.

But it was my parents I longed for mostly. I wanted to be a little girl again and cuddle into them, wriggling in between them like I’d done in their bed when I was three...

What about young age? You will be miserable all through your 15 years to reach that goal of $10 million. After 50years, even if you pay a million to get back a week of your...

I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip.

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.

I still remember her meandering Mississippi kiss. I sipped it like a riverboat captain in the desert. Ah, to be young and naughtily nautical.

Forse sapevano, un po’ meglio degli altri, decifrare, o magari suscitare, questi segni favorevoli. Le loro orecchie, le loro dita, il loro palato, come se fossero stati costantemente all’erta, aspettavano solo questi istanti propizi, scatenabili...