Sitting in the wicker rocking chair with her interrupted work in her lap, Amaranta watched Aureliano José, his chin covered with foam, stropping his razor to give himself his first shave. His blackheads bled and...

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

I was the Duff. And that was a good thing. Because anyone who didn’t feel like the Duff must not have friends. Every girl feels unattractive sometimes. Why had it taken me so long to...

Sean was young, vibrant, capable. Life hadn’t even begun to digest his hope.

Revolution and youth are closely allied. What can a revolution promise to adults? To some it brings disgrace, to others favor. But even that favor is questionable, for it affects only the worse half of...

Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.

Choice, and all its attendant energy, is a characteristic of youth. It is before one chooses that one feels desire and longing without fulfillment, which gives an edge to any artistic endeavor. Galway Kinnell recently...

The youth readership of the adult magazines that Philip Morris is still able to advertise in is so high that the companies are able to achieve just about the same level of advertising as they...

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

we’re teenagers,” Sylvia said. “we’re all depressed.

One could say Youth is power of country then my question is-who is youth?sorry to say but you are not youth. Youth is your thoughts, your inspiration and Your initiatives. So take a step to...

Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.

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.

There are things that money can’t buy, things like fresh youth to replace the one you’ve hardly been aware of, things like lost opportunities which might conceivably have led to nothing, but which on the...

Chance, you’ve gone past something you couldn’t afford to go past; your time, your youth, you’ve passed it. It’s all you had and you’ve had it.

Do not be too sure, young fellows,That you are better than your ancestors.

The rebel inside of me always ignored the rules.

What defines you isn’t how many times you crash but the number of times you get back.

My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

I was sent to a school with bosses for teachers- no Twain, only cane; check your dick you harry, no Dickens either, No Tom Sawyers no David Copperfields only Webster, master it for grammar, the...

Youth is no protection; in the end, life scars us all.

But you don’t need anything. You have everything,’ I tell him.Rip looks at me. ‘No I don’t.”What?”No I don’t.’There’s a pause and then I ask, ‘Oh, shit, Rip, What don’t you have?”I don’t have anything...

In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his theories.But now I know the things I knowAnd do the things I do,And if you...

You were the hardest year of my life and I’ve never been so happy. What does that say about me?

And you might try to hide or protect yourself, or compare the different states of love,but you must not grow up, must not act wise when it comes to love.You must stay foolish and fall...

The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return – that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.

It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.

The most ignorant and wasted youthful generation is the very one that the older generation uses to create social conflicts to their own youthful detriment!

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

I don’t like being with grown-up people. I’ve known that a long time. I don’t like it because I don’t know how to get on with them.

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

It seemed unreasonable, unfair, that a woman so young and beautiful should be so exhausted. Of course, it was neither unreasonable nor unfair. Exhaustion pays no mind to age and beauty. Like rain and earthquakes...

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

We were in a phase, through television and the movies, of living only vicariously. Even faintly sordid silliness excited us if it put us in contact with love.

Youth lasts much longer than young people think.

I’m sorry I’m young,” Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. “We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else.” The second part was more a plea, and to her surprise...

There’s nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth.

Talent don’t need affiliation.

Looking around today, I see a lot of young people who act as if they have all the time in the world, and older persons who think this attitude is alright. It is unfortunate that...

Youth is feeling seventy years old, misanthropic, and ready to die at fifteen

When he was young, he told her, each phase of his life, each self he tried on, had seemed reassuringly temporary. Its imperfections didn’t matter, because he could easily replace one moment by the next,...

But I recall the springtime of the world as though it were yesterday—those days when we rode together to battle, and those nights when we shook the stars loose from the fresh-painted skies!

When a child keeps asking you to tell him/her a story, what they instinctively really want to know is their true purpose and mission in life. Sadly, this knowledge was never sought out by their...

Think… of the world which you carry within yourself… and set it above everything that you notice about you. Your inmost happening is worth your whole love, that is what you must somehow work at,...

Carrie felt this as a personal reproof. She read “Dora Thorne,” or had a great deal in the past. It seemed only fair to her, but she supposed that people thought it very fine. Now...

May the magic within you shine through!

My youth was the most stubborn, peremptory part of myself. In my most relaxed moments, it governed my being. It pricked up its ears at the banter of eighteen-year-olds on the street. It frankly examined...

WisdomWhen I have ceased to break my wings Against the faultiness of things, And learned that compromises wait Behind each hardly opened gate, When I can look Life in the eyes, Grown calm and very...

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled...

I’m very, very involved in charities involving youth.