Quotes about Youth
But it's the same with all my friends, just fun and joking, nothing more. I can never bring myself to talk of anything outside the common round.
— Anne Frank
Older people have formed their opinions about everything, and don't waver before they act. It's twice as hard for us young ones to hold our ground, and maintain our opinions, in a time when all ideals are being shattered and destroyed, when people are showing their worst side, and do not know whether to believe in truth and right and God.
— Anne Frank
Things were different when I was growing up.
— Anne Frank
I'll show then that Anne Frank wasn't born yesterday
— Anne Frank
On Friday, June 12th, I woke up at six o'clock and no wonder; it was my birthday.
— Anne Frank
It's twice as hard for us young people to hold on to our opinions at a time when ideals are being shattered and destroyed, when the worst side of human nature predominates, when everyone has come to doubt truth, justice and God.
— Anne Frank
You can't forbid someone to have an opinion, no matter how young they are!
— Anne Frank
But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem. I long to ride a bike, dance, whistle, look at the world, feel young and know that I'm free, and yet I can't let it show.
— Anne Frank
It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because i have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I -nor for that matter anyone else- will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen year old schoolgirl. Still, what does that matter? I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie burried deep in my heart.
— Anne Frank
For a long time now I didn't know why I was bothering to do any schoolwork. The end of the war still seemed so far away, so unreal, like a fairy tale.
— Anne Frank
Later on, when you are older, you won't enjoy anything., then you'll say: 'I read that in books twenty years ago.
— Anne Frank
Peter was the ideal boy: tall, good-looking and slender, with a serious, quiet and intelligent face. He had dark hair, beautiful brown eyes, pale cheeks and a nicely pointed nose. I was crazy about his smile, which made him look so boyish and mischievous.
— Anne Frank