Youthful Vulnerability Quotes

I think I was shown Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas at seven or eight. That's really bad. I think I've turned out all right; it didn't harm me too much.

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

When I was 18, and my looks were what I was - and all that I was - it did feel very limiting.

Even when I was young, I cared too much about what other people thought, especially girls.

One of my favorite songs I've ever done is "Who Says," and I was 17 when I recorded that song. It was just so exactly what I felt, during that time. That's when I knew how powerful music is.

Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl ever wounded, ever young. Now, at an age when the wounds begin to heal whether one wants them to or not, Joan Baez rarely leaves the Carmel Valley.

Tomorrow will come and today will pass, / But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass.

It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.

I'm not fearful for myself, because I've seen adversity, and I can see it again. But I feel very upset and anguished when I see images of young lawyers beaten up.

A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.

I always wanted to do something related to the camera. When you are young, these are dreams you feel embarrassed talking about. You don't want to be made fun of. That would leave a scar on an young mind.

Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -

Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.

My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in this summer of weddings and beginnings. And she was right. The first boy was always the hardest.