And taken in exchange – my youth.

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.

I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

Me alimento de música y de agua negra. Soy tu niña calcinada por un sueño implacable.

Is there a word for when you are young and pretending to have lived and loved a thousand lives? Is there a German word for that? Let’s say its schaufenfrieglasploit.

To love all ages yield surrender;But to the young it’s raptures bringA blessing bountiful and tender-As storms refresh the fields of spring.

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they congealed into their final selves. It might be a very nice self, but you know...

A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.

But when I was an energetic self-important 10-year-old and found myself in a roomful of grownups, I felt guilty, and thought it only polite to conceal the fun I was having elsewhere. When an aged...

I didn’t want to be educated. It wasn’t the right time of my life for concentration, it really wasn’t. The spirit of the age among the people I knew manifested itself as general drift and...

Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Sometimes it’s only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world.

Hold fast to life and youth.

Life goes on. Get over it. You’re still young. It’ll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah

The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.

But that did no harm, and a sad young mind found a way to match things up with an antagonist. Now, just stand a child up against your body. How tall is it? Possibly only...

I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can’t imagine them properly now.

When the society missteps, it’s the youth who first fall sideways.

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

It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit quietly and listen to charges brought against my color with no...

Fools – in other words most people – imagine that it would be a wonderful achievement to be able to recover our youth; but those who know life are aware how little it would profit...

The youth. The youth of Africa. The youth of this world. Are we harnessing the potential of the youth enough? Are the young ones… giving off their best to the continent, the nation, the universe...

I and the girl in the picture have ceased to be the same person. I am her outcome, the result of the life she once lived headlong; whereas she, if she can be said to...

Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and...

The joy and laughter and youth they brought was an antidote to the somberness enveloping his flat, the hours when he felt the very walls and ceilings were encrusted with the distress of of unhappy...

Jaunystė gera dar ir tuo, jog jai, kvailei, visuomet atrodo, kad ateitis gali būti tiktai gera.

The year that Rutherford died (1938) there disappeared forever the happy days of free scientific work which gave us such delight in our youth. Science has lost her freedom. Science has become a productive force....

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood’s cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

Rather than standing or speaking for children, we need to stand with children speaking for themselves. We don’t need a political movement for children… [we need to] build environments and policies for our collective future.

Children are very wiseintuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.

Betänk det här: all ungdom för sig själv en fara är.

It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery...

She looked at the girl in the chair and she saw what youth was. It was oblivious, with things in its ears.

I’m a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I’m all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.

When you’re growing up, it takes a long time for you to realize that there’s something different about you. On one level, you know there’s something strange, but on another, yourself is the only thing...

I cried to think of how lucky we both were to have found each other, since it was clear that we were the only ones in the world who could understand what we understood in...

Say what you will, dear sister, we do what we do for the promise of our youth. Yet it is always they who scar beneath the points of daggers.

It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented...

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

I left my youth behind me. It peddled the bicycle while I rode on the handlebars.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?

A BlessingJust off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota,Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass.And the eyes of those two Indian poniesDarken with kindness.They have come gladly out of the willowsTo welcome my friend and me.We...

The grass is full of ghosts tonight.’ ‘The whole campus is alive with them.’ They paused by Little and watched the moon rise, to make silver of the slate roof of Dodd and blue the...

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

The truth is that the fever of desire in youth is fleeting disease that intimacy promptly cure.

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the...

You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn’t? What if you had to stay you...

But things are so bad, I feel like I’m going to explode if I don’t do something.

Oh, those warm days of stumbling words; blinded eyes, embracing in sweet slow dances and sipping courage from a bottle for sneaking kisses.