The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Mostly out of step, young people, especially poor minorities and low-income whites, are increasingly inscribed within a machinery of dead knowledge, social… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I admired the earnestness of these people, many of whom had joined Greenpeace and marched for noble things in their youth. But… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
Our lives are inpired by the dreams we have from the earliest stages of our youth. When you combine passion and hard… — Arte Moreno Copy Share Image
“To me, summer has always been about potential. This was especially true when I was in high school. Those 3 or so… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“A DEAD STATESMAN I could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“The phrase "after-life" was also vaguely confused with going to church and not wanting to be dead - a perplexity which can… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age… — Anton Chekhov 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
“Brains with insufficient life experience have not had the chance to model the world into a few heuristics, and must instead try… — Morris B. Hoffman Copy Share Image
For me, growing up at a young age in the limelight and on social media, I joined Twitter when I was 10… — Skai Jackson Copy Share Image
More than ever, it's very apparent that we are strapped for natural resources. We configure and reconfigure to try and find a… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I have been especially fortunate for about 50 years in having two memory banks available-whenever I can't remember something I ask my… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
“Some of the choices teenagers make are morally and practically wrong. Some of my characters do things I hope my child won't.… — Rachel Vail Copy Share Image
I know it's hard to believe that I'm no longer the young 'Zuri' everyone has grown to love, which I truly appreciate,… — Skai Jackson Copy Share Image
I suppose my interest in looking for life elsewhere in the universe really dates back to my teens. What teenager doesn't look… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
It is very important for young people not to be afraid of engaging in areas that are not common to the youth.… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
“Heroes in fact die with one's youth. They are pinned like butterflies to the setting board of early memories—the time when skies… — Alan Ross Copy Share Image
I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
“Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“It's funny the things you think will last forever when you're young. I figured I'd work until I died. But even work… — J. Sterling Copy Share Image
The voice so filled with nostalgia that you could almost see the memories floating through the blue smoke, memories not only of… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
... Oceanic malaise. I never saw anyone reading anything more demanding than a comic book. I never heard any youth express an… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained… — Sister Souljah Copy Share Image
Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human… — Louise J. Kaplan 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
Movies make teenagers have quippy answers for every question. Nothing seems to faze them, and they're like, 'Oh, whatever.' You're not like… — Bel Powley Copy Share Image
“As though on a seedling whose blossoms ripen at different times, I had seen in old ladies, on that beach at Balbec,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
There's so much anxiety coming from social media with teenagers that we have to give them characters that are real and that… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire… — Anthony Michael Hall Copy Share Image
It is not however, adulthood itself, but parenthood that forms the glass shroud of memory. For there is an interesting quirk in… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
When I was younger and at the academy, I was a lot smaller than other players so I had to use my… — Phil Foden Copy Share Image
“Adults, light-years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, "this too shall pass" - as if adolescence was a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The older your teenagers are, the more they will have their own ideas and opinions. If you take them seriously, rather than… — Kevin Leman Copy Share Image
A Fraternity, too, is of such character that after men have left college they delight to renew their own youth by continued… — Newton D. Baker Copy Share Image
My parents met at Fort Riley, Kan., during World War II. My father was an Army civilian; he had been trampled by… — Marillyn Hewson Copy Share Image
What is needed now are increased efforts to promote youth participation and commitment; more services aimed at youth; more parental involvement; more… — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
