The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
“...some adolescent survivors describe feeling special, powerful, and sometimes entitled. This is especially true of those for whom excessive attention was part… — Christine A. Courtois Copy Share Image
Cancer magnifies the in-betweenness of young adulthood: You're not a child anymore, yet you're not fully ready to live in the adult… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
Young people oppose those market-driven values and practices aimed at both creating radically individualized subjects and undermining those public spheres that create… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Violent atrocities by teenagers against one another have become the stuff of headlines: at Columbine High School in Colorado; in Tabor, Alberta;… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
As you get older, you tend to be a little less patient with people - people who are not prepared, people who… — Steven Pacey Copy Share Image
Some are young people who don't know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afraid,… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I am an orphan, alone: nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. I am youth and old… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Teenage is very difficult age. It is a time when people expect you to act like an adult, but at the same… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront… — Mike A. Males Copy Share Image
“But from the very start, there is that small streak of steel within each child. That thing that says “I am,” and… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For almost a quarter of a century, Teen Ink has been encouraging young people to write - and then has published those… — Anita Silvey Copy Share Image
As a young girl, I used to dream of giving an interview. You dream of stardom as a kid. People think they… — Sania Mirza Copy Share Image
It's true that many of the leaders who started at non-elite colleges as undergrads later attended prominent graduate schools in law, business,… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
“A child's reading is guided by pleasure, but his pleasure is undifferentiated; he cannot distinguish, for example, between aesthetic pleasure and the… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
Have you seen some of the women - and the men - in Los Angeles? They pay surgeons to make them look… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Maybe it's good to be traumatized in your youth, to make you think differently and step outside the box. Anybody can be… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
Five-hundred years ago people were saying in manuscripts, "Can you believe these kids today?" They were saying that same phrase everyone says… — Joel McHale Copy Share Image
“THE TRYING TWENTIES CONFRONTS US WITH THE QUESTION of how to take hold in the adult world. Incandescent with our molten energies,… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I ran away from home to see the Clash perform. After school one day, my mate and I hitchhiked… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
“This is the Supernova," he said. "Any time he gets worked up, his body bursts into white-hot light that disintegrates anything around… — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
The phenomenal success of the recovery movement reflects two simple truths that emerge in adolescence: all people love to talk about themselves,… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“If you wish to know the state of a people, turn to its youth: here, nothing is disfigured yet, they express themselves… — Annemarie Schwarzenbach Copy Share Image
“In idyllic small towns I sometimes see teenagers looking out of place in their garb of desperation, the leftover tatters and stains… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone;… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Equally unthinkable among young men of today is a truly religious renunciation of the world, adhered to with daily self-denial. On the… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Many, many individuals will report starting to form their lifelong interests around adolescence. Why that is, researchers don't fully know. But if… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
What I criticize is the message that the United States is sending to the youth of the world - to those of… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
“It’s not uncommon for distinguished French actresses to make their first films while still in their teens. Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle Carré, Charlotte… — Mick LaSalle Copy Share Image
“After the sureties of youth there sets in a period of intense and intolerable complexity. With the soda-jerker this period is so… — Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
To me everyone goes through that at some point in adolescence, you know. There's - you meet someone when you're a young… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
“In a way, losing hope and losing importance are the same thing. It is that youthful vibrance, that eternal longing and believing,… — Katherine Ewell Copy Share Image
If we are to maximize the potential of young girls everywhere, we have to think, in this instance, literally outside the box.… — David Trumble Copy Share Image
