may my heart always be open to littlebirds who are the secrets of livingwhatever they sing is better than to knowand if men should not hear them men are oldmay my mind stroll about hungryand...

normal” until adults squeeze it out them.

I am a complicated person with a simple life.

What more is required than a kind of stupid, insensitive doggedness, as lover, as writer, together with a readiness to fail and fail again?

The langour of Youth – how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth – all save this...

Outside of note passing and the occasional tight-lipped kiss after school events, “going together” in seventh grade was pretty meaningless. You couldn’t drive, had nowhere to go, and either weren’t allowed or couldn’t afford to...

The crowd of influences streaming on the young soul is so great, the clods of barbarism and violence flung at him so strange and overwhelming, that an assumed stupidity is his only refuge.

If I did not believe in life, if I were to lose faith in the woman I love, if I were to lose faith in the order of things, even if I were to become...

Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers’, but, where experience is...

We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.

The secret to youth is to fill your mind with beauty! Amen

Treasure the wisdom of old age.Learn from elder people and be wise.

unkindness �of ravens”?

…..and it is generally understood that a party hardly ever goes the way it is planned or intended. This last, of course, excludes, those dismal slave parties, whipped and controlled and dominated, given by an...

But, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us...

The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.

Don’t cause wealth loss to your generation! Life is too short to be little. You have an impact to make on your generation and the time to start was yesterday.

To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we’re not getting those things from our communities or from each other. When Nike says, just do it, that’s a message of empowerment. Why...

I don’t think my mum ever understood my love of Doctor Who. Surely her strongest memory would have been me, standing at the top of the stairs, crying about how the “jelly men” were going...

I didn’t know then that young girls were a sort of poison, infectious to the man of age; and that men of age justly take woman of age to cure themselves of the diseases of...

I felt so stupid and young, and at the same time something was cracking open inside me, or maybe it was the world was cracking open to show me something really important underneath. I knew...

Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

If you miss your bus, just start walking.

In some country patriotism is shown only for cricket. When it comes to responsibilities’ they started blaming their own country, politician, people, and others. And ends up praising the western.

I never saw “being different” in and of itself as the point to “being Goth” — dressing different from most others, maybe, but the point to me was to get together with people who liked...

When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.

We have some youth and inexperience on the offensive line and they were standing up a lot. Casey was teeing off on us in the second half,

Joy is the fountain of youth.

Maybe it is because I am an old man, but I find, M. Poirot, that there is something about the defenselessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so...

Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.

It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it.

When you think your life is falling apart, it’s usually falling together in disguise.

I used to be fine in my lonelinessbut somethingor someonesnapped me out of itand showed me company. What it’s like to feel at home,and so the going on by myself part wasn’t as easy anymore.Seasons...

I’ve never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.

What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations...

The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkness – the old illusion that truth and beauty were in some way entwined.

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.