All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; and some spirit within her rose automatically as the sap in the twigs. It was unexpected...

We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow

He smiled against my cheek and kissed me again. “Talking with you would be much more enjoyable than talking with Talia, Lilly.” His eyes scanned the floor by my feet. “She’s paint by number; you’re...

They were both from the real world, their own distinct ones, but I was somewhere in limbo. Set apart, I didn’t know how to let either of them in.

Dream young. Don’t settle for old – for to be old is to be superstitious and without curiosity and always questioning your faith. And be ferocious in your dreaming – run like a sun’s explosion,...

Youth is a failing only tooeasily outgrown.

There’s nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

Ansell.

But I was youngand didn’t know betterand someone should have told me to capture every secondevery kiss & every nightBecause now I’m sitting here alone and it’s getting really hard to breath because tears are...

I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would.

I was an at-risk youth. I was in danger of becoming an adult.

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.

Isn’t that better?

the much-sought prize of eternal youthIs just arrested growth.

She’s young and beautiful, which is twice as good as old and ugly. Some people are both, and some people are both.

While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover their vocations and responsibilities, and not merely cram their minds with facts and...

The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you’re that age, it will cause you pain when you’re older.

…intelligence nowadays is all about application: it is the ability ‘to take in a complex system and learn its rules on the fly’. For young people, this ability is second nature. Any fool knows that,...

What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness.

You think all teenagers care about are musicians and movie stars?Spend some time in Wisconsin.We’ll blow your socks off.

In a way, losing hope and losing importance are the same thing. It is that youthful vibrance, that eternal longing and believing, that makes youth so important–if you grow old and lose that without finding...

We’ll squeeze every second that we can from our lives, because we’re young, and we have plenty of years to grow. We’ll grow until we’re braver. We’ll grow until our bones ache and our skin...

Noorus tähendab valmisolekut minna ja ära tuua kõik õnneks vajalik.

On devient jeune à soixante ans. Malheureusement, c’est trop tard

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy – which...

In youth, the greatest success is to see the world from the eyes of the aged people and to feel exactly how they feel.

He doesn’t know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief.

Those things: Mystery, Fate, and Enchantment… they are things that young people offer us as soon as we get close to them. And if we’re not careful, we can be seduced by, and drawn back...

What ever happened to the passion we all had to improve ourselves, live up to our potential, leave a mark on the world? Our hottest arguments were always about how we could contribute. We did...

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience.

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

I feel sad for him. Sad for the boy bound to the killer. I am sad for the youth betrayed by their leaders for symbols and flags and war and power.

Then a soft air, a simple melody, rose to the ears of the suddenly hushed court; and for me, it was May Day again, and I was no longer cold, for the sun burned bright...

It’s sad that several political parties still count the dead, the starving, the unemployed by their religion, caste, creed and sect. The young generation needs to engage in politics of right vs wrong and not...

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,But young men think it is, and we were young.

Ah man. I remember the days of lying to my mother about a boy. Once I had a boy hidden in the closet and of course Mom wouldn’t leave, so I finally had to pretend...

I have lived my life backwards as compared to my peers. Everyone did incredibly stupid things as teenagers and pre-teens. I didn’t. I was the one telling everybody that they were incredibly stupid. Now that...

Many of the big changes of the next 25 years will come from unknowns working in their bedrooms and garages…

Muoth was right. On growing old, one becomes more contented than in one’s youth, which I will not therefore revile, for in all my dreams I hear my youth like a wonderful song which now...

I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone…

I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.

It was impossible to understand how brief it is. It seemed like youth would last so long; it would last forever. But it’s just a blink.

Don’t be stuck in a life that’s not yours just because of a bad habit

This western-front business couldn’t be done again, not for a long time. The young men think they could do it but they couldn’t. They could fight the first Marne again but not this. This took...

When you’re young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time you can enjoy the fact of being there on the rock, flat mollusk-pulp, damp and happy.

The great fact all the while however had been the incalculability; since he had supposed himself, from decade to decade, to be allowing, and in the most liberal and intelligent manner, for brilliancy of change....

I can’t really tell how old I am, only that I’m too young to wonder if I asked the right questions in the past, and too old to wish the future will bring me all...

She blinked, sat up, and saw Chris in the bathroom doorway. He’d just gotten out the shower. His hair was damp, and he was dressed only in his briefs. The sight of his thin, boyish...

…for they was never a young man yet who don’t want to go out and right a wrong, or kill a man, or have to do something to earn his right to what is there...