#youth

This is so funny,” said Ellen, noticing the seating arrangement. “Isn’t this funny? Tom, come sit next to Robin. Griffin, sit next to Laura.” I stood up and sat next to Robin while Griffin brought his chair over to Laura. “That’s better,” said Ellen. “Isn’t that better? ↗

— Daniel Amory

#chicago #city #downtown #dream #lake

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#growing-up #innocence #life #loss-of-innocence #truths

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#foolishness #youth #experience

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#youth #humor

My thought is that the average adjusted boy is, if anything, more humanly wasted than the disaffected. So let us go on to discuss his stupidity, his lack of patriotism, his sexual confusion, and his lack of faith. ↗

— Paul Goodman

#youth #faith

Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily. "I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#joy #youth #art

The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#society #young-people #youth #change

Enjoy your youth. You'll never be younger than you are at this very moment. ↗

— Chad Sugg

#life #moment #young #youth #life

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. ↗

— Diogenes

#every #foundation #state #youth

Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do. ↗

— Russell Brand

#funny #life #youth #funny