That's what is was to be young — to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.

You think all teenagers care about are musicians and movie stars?Spend some time in Wisconsin.We'll blow your socks off.

She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.

The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

My earliest poems appear almost skeletal to me now - it seems I've learned to add meat, muscle and a nice suit of clothes.

Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it’s too late.

Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can't understand or value her until she goes off with someone else, never to return.

Tuwape watoto wetu haki yao ya msingi ya kuwa watoto katika siku za ujana wao, kabla hawajawa watoto tena watakapokuwa wakubwa.

One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.

what it is is the memory of a dance a song you heard long ago to hear it is to be young again and for once for once you are happy

what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.