Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?

It’s hard, omigod remember? Being a kid.

It was that wisdom to us when it can no longer do any good

And I’ll look back at him because I shan’t be able to help it, remembering about being young, and about being made love to and making love, about pain and dancing and not being afraid...

Nothing. In fact, you’d have to pay me.

Young people must appreciate the beauty of old age. The old people were once young.

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

Einige Junge unter euch suchen das Vergnügen, als sei es alles, und sie werden getadelt und verurteilt. – Ich würde sie weder tadeln noch verurteilen. Ich würde sie suchen lassen.

Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to...

Potkraj Drugoga svjetskog rata izvukli su me iz škole i, kao šesnaestogodišnjaka, gurnuli u vojsku. Nakon kratke vojničke izobrazbe u würzburškim kasarnama došao sam na frontu koja se u to vrijeme već bila pomakla preko...

Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now than when young, know now there is so much more to know than...

Youth to youth, like the dragon-flies chasing each other, and love like the sun warming them through and through.

But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind.

Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization which will be free and intelligent; which will be healthy...

All this security and prospects are different for different people. Somebody is happy playing music and with a less pay, somebody is secure in the corporate world with a high pay with headache. We have...

In terms of days and moments lived, you’ll never again be as young as you are right now, so spend this day, the youth of your future, in a way that deflects regret. Invest in...

That’s what love is like when you’re young. Like spinning, filling you with excitement and joy, losing yourself in the moment. But if you don’t have a focus point to keep you stable, you lose...

One of the few things my father says when he’s had a few that I agree with is that kids don’t have much balls in this generation. Some of them are trying to start the...

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.

Golden lads and girls all must, like chimmney-sweepers, come to dust.

I’ve learned one thing, and that’s to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people with jobs. You’ll never remember class time, but you’ll remember...

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...

for whenever men are right they are not young

…youth looks good in anything; unpleasant details lose themselves against the unabating vigour of youth…

There were days when I still put on make up in case you’d come back,but I wear the same clothes and shower in the rainand eat when I can and sleep when I can,which is...

Youth, I didn’t want that illness. Luckily I recovered just in time for middle age. Now I can focus on more important things, like love, a relationship, and my upcoming existential crisis.

Sometimes there were kids who were simply born to be thirty, or fifty, or seventy; I could see their unfinished teenaged faces overlaid with the transparencies of their aged selves and had to resist telling...

You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York, an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to...

And they fear nothing, and they respect nothing, the young don’t.

Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural time for revolt, for experiment, for a generous idealism that is eager for...

Nature felt no change, and was ever young.

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.