“One of the reasons I hate Hollywood so much is that they portray the travails of teen life as so innocuous and… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“Complicating matters, adolescent brains are more susceptible to substance abuse and dependence than adult brains, because they’re making so many new synaptic… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
Here's what people should look at as they look at a public servant. Do they have a passion in their life that… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
In your school you take part in various activities that habituate you not to shut yourselves in on yourselves or in your… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“A young Nigerian woman once told me that she had for years behaved ‘like a boy’ – she liked football and was… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Every one of the geezers who continues to play a leadership role has one quality of overriding importance: neotony. The dictionary definition… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Find time for thought, this is the source of strength. Find time for the game, this is the secret of eternal youth.… — Giannis Ritsos Copy Share Image
“It’s pretty much impossible to expect impressionable teenagers to react positively to difference when mainstream values obsessively promote a religious adherence to… — Francesca Martínez Copy Share Image
“I am life,’ the girl said. ‘What?’ he said, startled. ‘To you, I am life. What are you, thirty-eight? Forty? What have… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
It isn't that some gay will get some rights. It's that everyone else in our state will lose rights. For instance, parents… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
The busy chatter of the heat Shrilled like a parakeet; And shuddering at the noonday light The dust lay dead and white… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
What a messed up generation we have . . . young kids drinking and burning like theres no tomorrow, little girls going… — Tati Kaniaupio Copy Share Image
Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires… — Plato Copy Share Image
“ Gains for all our losses There are gains for all our losses There are balms for all our pains But when… — R.H. Stoddard Copy Share Image
“Pardon me for budging into concoction of the aristocrats blowing their trumpets, the demagogues' doctrines, the antagonists' squeals, the hypocrites' assertions, the… — Mukesh Kwatra Copy Share Image
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I'm not going to try to be too young because at the end of the day, I'm not 20 anymore. I don't… — Ginuwine Copy Share Image
What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And even if these scenes from our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do. The tender,… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
In these last few days, we were close because we were both mortal men. We saw the same sun and the same… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I love the complication of the kids in the characters' lives. I love that these two people are very capable in all… — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
“I sometimes wonder what teenage me would think of the adult me. If she knew what lies ahead, would she make the… — Jill Grunenwald Copy Share Image
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
“There is a paradox at the heart of contemporary Girl Land, and this paradox makes the emotional experience of female adolescence more… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
Cold as winter, strong as stone; She faced the darkness all alone. A silver goddess; a reflection. A mirage; a recollection. No… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
“We talk about the disappointments of early adolescence - the betrayals by friends, the discovery that one is not beautiful by cultural… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
“You may be safe, but I am free.' Take advantage of the freedom that comes with your youth. Inhale life, exhale fire,… — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
What has changed about an entire generation of young people includes not only neoliberal society's disinvestment in youth and the lasting fate… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Trying out a bit of weed, a knock of crack, a quick cigarrette, a tot of brandy, a sip of larger or… — Mufti Ismail Menk Copy Share Image
The wave of punitiveness that washed over the United States with the rise of the drug war and the get tough movement… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The process by which the idea for a play comes to me has always been something I really couldn't pinpoint. A play… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
When you look at somebody like a Netanyahu, to simply not understand that this is a right-wing politician, a guy who kind… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Youth! There is nothing like it. It’s absurd to talk of the ignorance of youth. The only people whose opinions I listen… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image