In youth, our blood rises and becomes volatile. Desire, worry, and anxiety increase. External circumstances now direct the rise and fall of emotions. Will and intention become constrained by social conventions. Competition, conflict, and scheming...

Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà!

The current generation of youth knows that Mandela was our president and that he was in jail, but that’s it. They don’t know their own history. We celebrated democracy and the miracle, but the building...

Little girls think it’s necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it’s a shame…I’m all about mystery.

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth…

Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere… – Pg. 82

…love, all at once and much, much too completely. It’s like you suddenly turn a blinding light on something that had always been half a shadow…

Saki says that youth is like hors d’oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don’t notice it. When you’ve had them, you wish you’d had more hors d’oeuvres.

So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.

All the sanguine guesswork of youth is there, and the silliness; all the novelty of being alive and impressed by the urgency of tremendous trivialities.

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose’s childhood, but time is a mother’s enemy.

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.

‘Youth is the time for loving, so poets always say.

Public swimming pools, recreation centers, summer reading programs, youth jobs programs – they are all shutting their doors. And they are all facilities and programs relied on most heavily by low-income children.

What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.

See, my aim is not to survivebut to be thrown to the wolfs with adrenaline still pumping in my veins and hear the gods laughing saying ”that was one hell of a youth” and everything...

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

Show me the heroes that the youth of your country look up to, and I will tell you the future of your country.

Don’t you think most of those kids think too much about who got an A or a B when they were in law school and what that means to an inflated G.P.A. and not enough...

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Most young people have rebellious, anti-authoritarian impulses. They don’t like being told what, when, or how to do something. It’s ironic, then, that many of these same people embrace a system in which there would...

No man knows he is young while he is young.

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.What are brief? today and tomorrow.What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.What are deep? the ocean and truth.

The voice so filled with nostalgia that you could almost see the memories floating through the blue smoke, memories not only of music and joy and youth, but perhaps, of dreams. They listened to the...

Extend your “best before” date by living a youthful life.

Our biggest advantage this year is our youth. Our biggest disadvantage this year is our youth. They are a very willing group. We have a lot of great athletes, but a lot have never run...

…how many of us have a moved heart that shies away to a different angle, a millimetre or even less from the place where it first existed, some repositioning unknown to us.

your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.

During my completely soul-shredding midlife crisis at the age of twenty-eight, I felt sure I had peaked too soon.

Slim is queer and though Nelson isn’t supposed to mind that he does. He also minds that there are a couple of slick blacks making it at the party and that one little white girl...

Young men and women are causing wealth loss to their generation because they are sitting on inert ideas, bottled-up potential energy and scratching the ground when they should be gliding the skies and perambulating with...

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.

But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques – which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things...

Young men think old men fools, old men know young men to be so.

I’m sorry you don’t like coming back here,” her mother often said, to cap whatever petty dust-up they’d had. How could Emily explain: it wasn’t her mother or Kersey she’d disowned, but her earlier self,...

I’ve met a man and fallen in love with him. I allowed myself to fall in love for one simple reason: I’m not expecting anything to come of it. I know that, in three months’...

Buttercup dried her tears and began to smile. She took a deep breath, heaved a sigh. It was all part of growing up. You got these little quick passions, you blinked, and they were gone....

In my early teens, I heard about Naked Lunch and its mutating typewriters and talking cockroaches. While I would hardly classify its dystopic vision as erotica now, at the time, Naked Lunch was my first...

What though the radiance which was once so brightBe now for ever taken from my sight,Though nothing can bring back the hourOf splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;We will grieve not, rather...

Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti; it is the land of our...

Old ones should respect the energy of youths and youths should respect the experience of old ones.

when you’re younga pair offemalehigh-heeled shoesjust sittingalonein the closetcan fire yourbones;when you’re oldit’s justa pair of shoeswithoutanybodyin themandjust aswell.

But flaming youth in all it’s madnessKeeps nothing of its heart concealed:It’s loves and hates, its joys and sadness,Are babbled out and soon revealed.

I think about pinball, and how being a kid’s like being shot up the firing lane and there’s no veering left or right; you’re just sort of propelled. But once you clear the top, like...

She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn’t be spoken aloud when you are happy.

… and it was quite a sad thing,the way I watched you sleep like nothing could go wrong and I did not want to harm it, I did not want to blur it, but how...

Too young to care; Too old to change.

It was always the view of my parents,” Emily said, “that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.

The girl I used to love is no longer a girl, and this saddens me more than our separation. It puts my own mortality vividly on display, in contrast to my eternally youthful memories.