I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the downfall of youth.
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Quotes tagged ‘Youth’
Everything is amazing right now, and nobody's happy. ... Now, we live in an amazing, amazing world, and it's wasted on the crappiest generation of just spoiled idiots that don't care. This is what people are like now: they've got their phones and they're like 'ugh, it won't--' GIVE IT A SECOND! It's…
You have all the amazing independence of being an adult, but haven’t lost the naïveté. You don’t have a boss, a wife or husband, kids or a mortgage and the responsibilities that grind us all down. That spirit is intoxicating, and you don’t realize it until later.
I'm young as morning and fresh as dew. Everybody loves me and so do you.
There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
We have never before been so young, nor so old.
Twice we see Paradise. In youth we name it Life; in age, Youth.
I suffered from a youthful tendency to take things too seriously.
It may appear as if the world now belongs mostly to the younger generations, with their idiosyncratic mindsets and technological gadgetry, yet in truth, the age as a whole, whether wittingly or not, deprives the young of what youth needs most if it hopes to flourish. It deprives them of idleness, sh…
Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.
She is all interest, eagerness, vivacity, the world is to her a charm, a wonder, a mystery, a joy; she can’t speak for delight when she finds a new flower, she must pet it and caress it and smell it and talk to it, and pour out endearing names upon it. And she is color-mad: brown rocks, yellow sand,…
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a troublesome super-abundance of that sort of time which is not money.
When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop - that is, with a marriage; but when he writes about juveniles, he must stop where he best can.
you were sixteen and slender and kept wrecking your thin hips against mine. What the hell was I supposed to do?
I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel. Young. Goofy. Infinite.
Hey, where did we go Days when the rains came ?
Only the young have such moments.
You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture.