She looked at the girl in the chair and she saw what youth was. It was oblivious, with things in its ears.
I'm certainly not surprised by the passion of the youth for our myths. Mythology is almost a part of an Indian's DNA.
We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.
We would like to have every middle and high school become a place where there will be lots of examples of youth competence and confidence.
To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.
I contracted malaria in rural Mozambique. I was a youth ambassador for Australia. For a year after high school, you give positive speeches about Australia and as part of it I traveled to lots of different countries.
You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.
It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.
Try not to be in a hurry to get older because youth happens once in your life. Thereafter, old age stays with you forever.
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
Now that Obama's president, it changes inner-city youths. They can now not just dream to be Lil Waynes and 50 Cents, but they can now dream to be Obamas.
such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.
I have found things that I could have done better in 'The Woman Warrior.' But then I thought: Let the work of one's youth just stand.
Neoteny is more than retaining a youthful appearance, although that is often part of it. Neoteny is the retention of all those wonderful qualities that we associate with youth: curiosity, playfulness, eagerness, fearlessness, warmth, energy. Unlike t...
Part of our skittishness about Christian perfection is linguistic confusion. The English word "perfect" has absorbed the Greek notion of "teleos". When the Greeks looked at a building's blueprint, they pictured the building whole and complete. They e...
It had not occurred to him how he must appear to an outsider, to the world. For a moment he saw himself as he must thus appear; and what Edith said was part of what he saw. He had a glimpse of a figure that flitted through smoking-room anecdotes, and...
She clung to the memories of her youth as if they were the only way she could save a piece of her soul from whatever it was she was about to face.
he had offered some of his own background. A youth in the South. An education in the North. Bred for life in the East. Trying not to die in the West.
There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists.
The youth choir is up onstage now, in flowing white gowns, and they're singing something in the key of goose-bumps.
