“I am the contrast. I am forever the crack in the window that lets the winter in. I am forever the moment… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection instead. She had the nearsightedness… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“I was the Duff. And that was a good thing. Because anyone who didn't feel like the Duff must not have friends.… — Kody Keplinger Copy Share Image
Adults are always telling young people, 'These are the best years of your life.' Are they? I don't know. Sometimes when adults… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I know how soon youth would fade and bloom perish, if, in the cup of bliss offered, but one dreg of shame,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
At the start of the second decade of the 21st century, young people all over the world are demonstrating against a variety… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The year that Rutherford died (1938) there disappeared forever the happy days of free scientific work which gave us such delight in… — Pyotr Kapitsa Copy Share Image
“The Sunday morning choir raised their voices to fever pitch with another gospel tune. Slurring voices filled with thick drawls of the… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image
“I learned how to operate under both the physical and emotional weight of unrelenting shame very early. Fat babies are adorable, while… — Samantha Irby Copy Share Image
If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Royal Business; Strictly For The Young Gentleman Who Meets the Criteria- A Riddle To Solve: Where the Twelve Princesses of Eathesbury Dance… — Heather Dixon Copy Share Image
How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put… — John Updike Copy Share Image
When a new post-war generation has grown to puberty and to youth and to manhood and womanhood, it should read, and it… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Just then, a little hopped-up Japanese car zips up next to us. It’s bright yellow with loud, high-pitched exhaust pipes and a… — Michael Zadoorian Copy Share Image
I vividly remember being in my mid- to late-20s. That part of life is very emotional, and exciting, and dramatic in a… — Ed Brubaker Copy Share Image
“Youth, like a flame, burned ever in his breast, and to youth he turned, to the round little limbs, so reckless, that… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
“The sun, like a golden knife, was steadily paring away the edge of the shade beside the walls.The streets were enclosed between… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
Royal Young has accomplished a rare feat in his fresh and riveting debut: he manages to recount his fascinating youth and unconventional… — Kristen Johnston Copy Share Image
Those who feel guilty contemplating "betraying" the tradition they love by acknowledging their disapproval of elements within it should reflect on the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A person in her twenties has been a child for most of her life, but as time goes by that portion that… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inescapable romantic curiosity about one… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I started piano lessons at age six but didn't take music seriously until I was a teenager, when I thought about a… — Paul Haslinger Copy Share Image
But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“My work with teenagers has convinced me that one of the main reasons teenagers are not excited by the gospel is that… — Timothy Lane Copy Share Image
“Not enough youths fighting windmills. And the old are fearful, jaded or dead. Do not ask me what to do. I am… — psyche roxas-mendoza Copy Share Image
“It reached a point where the paranoia was getting to me. Everywhere I looked, it seemed like people were hanging out, wanting… — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
“Today's youth cannot escape the shadow of racism that has been passed down organically from parents and others who cling to a… — Thomas Norman DeWolf Copy Share Image
To prepare youth for success in entrepreneurial (and free) cultures, education tends to emphasize originality, creativity, breadth, depth and leadership skills rather… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It… — Layne Staley Copy Share Image
Once I became an adult and started to pursue writing as a professional career, I realized my main characters were always young… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
“A month ago I was a semi average teenager with a paranoid mom and a whole highway to call home. Yeah, I… — Airicka Phoenix Copy Share Image
When you're sixteen and struggling to forge an identity out of a morass of hormones and daydreams, remarks like that cut a… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
Few places in American culture have made as effective a case for entrepreneurship than hip-hop. Hip-hop tells young people that our society… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
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