Young Allie: This place is gigantic! Young Noah: Yeah, a gigantic piece of crap!
Jane Bennet: He is just what a young man ought to be.
Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.
When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.
I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.
Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.
Young people are being elected for School Boards all over the country.
If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
It has always been very important to look carefully at young people and the way they wear clothes.
You always like to learn from people as a young actor. I think every young actor says that, but it's true.
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.
It was the world-without-adults daydream. In my dream I'd never quite figured out where the adults went but we kids were free to roam, to help ourselves to anything we wanted. We'd pick up a Merc from a showroom when we wanted wheels, and when it ran...
When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into pa...
I don't care how happily married you are or how deeply enmeshed you are with your children and family and career -- every woman needs a couple of chicks who'll break out the sangria just because you need to vent.
Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know Superman can possibly fly, or Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day...
All of us lived life when sex was the farthest thing from our minds. Try to remember the careless freedom of play, basking in the beingness of others. As adults, responsibilities and obligations can often bind us to a daily grind. For some adults, th...
If you want to be with somebody who gets you, you prefer collusion to desire, safety to excitement (sometimes good things to prefer but not always the things most wanted). The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we h...
One day, an unusually exciting event interrupted the rhythm of our regular middle-class teenage lives. A Russian woman, the mother of a girl in our class, was run over by a New York City bound train right in the center of town. Our classmate left sch...
So now you must choose... Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or are you a philosopher who will vow never to become so? To children, the world and everything in it is new, something that gives rise to astonishment. It is not like that...
