Youngsters Quotes

“Cat's friends seemed like very sweet girls," Dad says.
"They were the bomb," I say fervently, and he looks back at me with raised eyebrows.
"'The bomb' is a good thing? Like 'sick'?
"Duh," I reply, and Dad lets out a sigh.
"Thirteen-year-olds should come with subtitles," he says, turning onto our street.”
― Maya Gold, Scheme Spirit

“No, amusing me only, I wonder if they realize how they are used?"
"Not a bit. They think they are the emperors of creation."
"Poor lambs."
"That's not how I'd describe them."
"I was thinking of animal sacrifice."
"Ah. That's closer.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honour

“You give them an environment where they feel they can grow. But also make bloody sure you challenge them. You make sure they realise learning is hard. Because if you don’t, if you only make it a safe haven, if it’s all clap-happy, and ‘everything the kids do is great’, then what are you creating? Emotional toffees, who’ve actually learnt nothing, but who then have to go back and face the real world … Find that balance, it stretches you, it stretches you as far as you’ll go.”
― David Hare, Skylight

“Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“Joining a gang is like sky diving without a parachute. Oh, at first it’s all fun, as you take on gravity in a thrilling and exhilarating free fall towards earth. The truth is, anything that is risky and dangerous always starts out as fun. But the odds are always stacked in gravity’s favor, for you will eventually come face to face with the earth, and mother earth always wins those battles. The same thing can be said about being in a gang.”
― Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

“I can't say that many of the youngsters at church aspired to be saints or lead particularly 'Godly' lives, they canoodled, smoked pot, drank excessively and were generally a whole lot more rebellious than most of the irreligious children from my school.”
― Gillian Dance, The Ultimate Religion

“Yelah, sebenarnya dugaan tu semua tak besar mana pun. Tapi di umur yang masih muda, kadang-kadang kita terlebih pandai nak membesarkan perkara yang kecik.”
― Nadia Khan, PAKAR

“Impatience may be a virtue if you have to write for today's generation.”
― Haresh Sippy

“Youngsters who love by their own choice but marry by their parents choice do so only because they're shit scared of taking responsibility for their actions and their lives.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Love is eternal" is mouthed by youngsters whose love for a song does not last more than 2 weeks tops.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Nope, not at all feed a proper brain food to the younger in excess of his own thoughts”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“If you make boozed up youngsters with no comprehension of civilization your role model, you will end up with a world outwardly sophisticated yet inwardly broken and empty. Remember, a singer who publicly practices eroticism on stage, is no more empowering than a dog who pees at the corner of the street.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility

“If you make boozed up youngsters with no comprehension of civilization your role model, you will end up with a world outwardly sophisticated yet inwardly broken and empty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility

“Young, Boiling, Selfless (The Sonnet)

Sen söyle karadeniz,
Ben daha ne yapayım!
Gençliğimi feda ettim,
Hayatımı feda ettim,
Ben daha ne yapayım!
In wiping out the anguish of society,
I forgot to indulge in the exploits of youth.
Once I realized the world on my shoulder,
That was the end of self, and the birth of truth.
People dream of earning a ton of money,
I always dreamed of earning immortality.
Anybody can live in flesh and blood,
Mark of character is to live in people's memory.
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind,
But a life given for a life fallen
makes the whole world alive.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“In wiping out the anguish of society,
I forgot to indulge in the exploits of youth.
Once I realized the world on my shoulder,
That was the end of self, and the birth of truth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“Youth are the cure
for all dividing insanity.
You are the antidote
to all bewitching animosity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Youth is the spirit of play
with the forces of ominosity.
Youth is the conquest of death
into the daring pastures of duty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Youth are absolution to habits of death. Youth are walking illumination manifest.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Illumination Manifest
(Youth Sonnet, 1528)

Youth are the cure
for all dividing insanity.
You are the antidote
to all bewitching animosity.

Don't confuse youth as a measure
of agist conventionality.
Youth is but a sanctifying dawn,
out of the dusk of rigidity.

Youth is the spirit of play
with the forces of ominosity.
Youth is the conquest of death
into the daring pastures of duty.

Youth are absolution to habits of death.
Youth are walking illumination manifest.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Youth are the cure
for all dividing insanity.
You are the antidote
to all bewitching animosity.

Youth is the spirit of play
with the forces of ominosity.
Youth is but a sanctifying dawn,
out of the dusk of rigidity.

Youth are absolution
to habits of death.
Youth are walking
illumination manifest.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Youth are the cure
for all dividing insanity.
You are the antidote
to all bewitching animosity.

Youth are absolution
to habits of death.
Youth are walking
illumination manifest.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“One thing I've noticed about caring for little ones: you've got to get used to having wildly different feelings at the same time.
Each new day with youngsters is like a frenzied drawing, one that uses every single color in the crayon box.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Family

“Cicadas

Midday late August and the cicadas are all singing
'Louie Louie' at the top of their lungs. They know it cold

and what it really means, like every seventeen-year-old
you've ever known or been. They also know, exoskeleton deep,

they've got six weeks, max, to lose their insectival virginity and die.
How would you act if you had spent your first and last

seventeen years buried in the dirt? Looey Looayyyy,
oh baby. Meanwhile the human teenagers keep taking on

the appearance of life forms newly emerged from the earth,
vivid and slightly shiny, strangely attired and no longer caring

to communicate in a language we thought we had in common.
Some will successfully mate, others will die in flamboyant car crashes

graduation week, hopped up on exotic intoxicants and endless potential.
It's as seasonal as the flu. Most, however, will live to see thirty-four

and fifty-one and even sixty-eight before they turn back, reluctantly,
towards the undercrust. I remember those desperate nights - don't you? -

when we were neither tired nor resigned and full of insane hope
for nothing we could have named but would gladly die for.”
― Arne Weingart