The weather here is windy, balmy, sometimes wet. Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement - mating season. And lots of fresh rabbit meat hopping about to feed the young ones with. - Edward Abbey I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage. - Lara Flynn Boyle You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub. - George Bernard Shaw Yuuko, speaking to Fai: To all the young ones in your group, you are no longer someone who passes through their lives and is forgotten. You have become someone very important to them. Your hardships are their hardships too. - Clam...

To learn is to be young, however old. - Aeschylus I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company. - Gaston Bachelard We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion. - Stephen Baxter I just want to be young and fun and you know I think people should all wear yellow shoes. - Justin Bieber To be young is the only religion. - Charles Bukowski Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love. ...

Watching her, he saw again how she teetered between adolescence and adulthood, with a raw sensuality that had to deposit her in a kind of no-man's land--too much a woman for boys her own age, too young for fully adult men. - Keith Ablow I believe now that there can be no real sense of loss or seperation without the recognition of death; we were too young to consider any such eventuality, and simply moved on with our lives into some indefinite but illimitable future. - Peter Ackroyd Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. - Franklin Pierce Adams Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. - Franklin Pierce Adams How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off. - Jodi Picoult Romanian? That's impressive," said Jace...

Never mind. Little girls shouldn't ask questions,' returned Jo sharply. Now if there is anything mortifying to our feelings when we are young, it is to be told that; and to be bidden to 'run away, dear' is still more trying to us. - Louisa May Alcott It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterward. - Thomas Jefferson I saw that they wanted to kill the past. When we are old, we let it die; when we are young and strong, we kill it. - Henri Barbusse Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young, erode. We end up belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself. [p. 66] - Julian Barnes It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age," Tony says, "when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others. - Julian Barnes The next day, when I was sober, I...

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not. - Mark Twain My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job. - Jensen Ackles And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever. - Peter Ackroyd You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young." "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don...

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids. - Gilbert Hernandez Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old. - Julia Roberts

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it. - Nicole Krauss It's stupid, I know, but I care. All the things that meant so much when we were young. Under the blankets late at night, listening to long-distance radio. All those things lost now or broken. Can you remember? Can you remember that feeling? Perhaps I ought to go to a doctor. - Grant Morrison Just ignore him and he'll go away, my mother used to say to Gillian when we were young and I bugged her. Just ignore him. All he wants is attention. In retrospect there seems to be something almost cruel about thatto simultaneously acknowledge and refuse someone's desire for attentionespecially a child's. All he wants is attention, as if it's bad to want attention, like wanting money or power or fame. - Peter Cameron My dear," he sighed when the lights were turned on and they both looked older, "it's been a ...

A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature. - Sherman Alexie I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature. - Sherman Alexie Part of the post-apocalyptic, dystopian trend is that it seems to go hand in hand with young adult novels. Maybe that's because it's not simply the adults who are aware of the current crisis. Teens are the ones who are being told, again and again, that their futures are in jeopardy. The teen years can feel dystopian even in the best of times. But I don't think we realize how much pressure and feeling of doom we're passing down to our teens. - Julianna Baggott When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults. - Alison Bechdel I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have f...

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults. - Alison Bechdel I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun. - Brian Bosworth As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case. - Allen Boyd In California, of all places, entertainment is the key to a vibrant economy. If we do not develop young adults capable of entering that world, the financial base of this state is sure to suffer and impact all of us. - David Cassidy I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation. - Matt Gonzalez Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our na...