“Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals.” PeopleMenYearsMindMeanMatterStatesGrowsImaginationNumbersEmotionQualityBoysYouthAdventureSpringRedIdealsTwentiesLipsEaseKneesFiftyAppetiteState Of MindTemperCheeksVigorFreshnessTimidityRed LipsSupple Author:Samuel Ullman
“In Middle America men are awakening. Like awkward and untrained boys we begin to turn toward maturity and with our awakening we hunger for song. But in our towns and fields there are few memory haunted places. Here we stand in roaring city streets, on steaming coal heaps, in the shadow of factories from which come only the grinding roar of machines. We do not sing but mutter in the darkness. Our lips are cracked with dust and with the heat of furnaces. We but mutter and feel our way toward the promise of song.” MenWayFeelsAmericaSongTurnsMemoriesCitiesBoysDarknessStreetsMiddleFieldsPromiseShadowMachinesTownsLipsHungerAwakeningDustMaturityHeatFactoriesAwkwardCoalCrackedRoaringFurnacesOur TownCity StreetsMiddle America Author:Sherwood Anderson
“From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.” ArtSaidWholeNamesWaterBornLinesChancePoorBoysSeaDyingFieldsRiversLaysLipsCaughtFishesBoatStreamsLakesFishingSwimShoreEstatesHookInheritancePreyMy BoysPasturesOxen Author:Ovid
“Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.” ThinkingWayShouldLooksMightParentAttentionBoysTaughtExerciseShould HaveLipsCupsPay AttentionVictorianDashing Book:No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp Source: No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp
“I had my first kiss under a tree near the school. It was with a boy named Michael who rarely spoke, but he would sometimes give me one of the cookies from his lunch. Maybe it was the gifts that made me feel special? I don't know, but when our lips touched, it felt magical.” KnowsGivingFeelsFirstsMadeSometimesSchoolFeltBoysTreeSpecialKissingGive MeLipsTouchedSpokesLunchCookiesFirst KissMy First Kiss Author:Paula Abdul
“White boys do eat pussy better than everyone else, though, I will say that. Maybe it's those thin white-boy lips!” WhiteBoysLipsPussy Author:Azealia Banks
“But boys and girls, pale from the imagined love Of solitary beds, knew what they were, That passion could bring character enough And pressed at midnighht in some public place Live lips upon a plummet-measured face.” EnoughCharacterFacesGirlPassionImaginationBoysYouthBedLipsSolitaryPaleBoy And Girl Author:William Butler Yeats
“...to many a mother's heart has come the disappointment of a loss of power, a limitation of influence when early manhood takes the boy from the home, or when even before that time, in school, or where he touches the great world and begins to be bewildered with its controversies, trade and economics and politics make their imprint even while his lips are dewy with his mother's kiss.” WorldHeartHomeSchoolMotherLossBoysInfluenceSonKissingEconomicsTradeLipsDisappointmentLimitationManhoodControversyBewilderedMother And Son Author:Judith Ellen Foster
“I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.” LittlesDreamHandsAbleGirlBlackWhiteBoysBrotherOne DayLipsRacistGovernorsBrothers And SistersViciousAlabamaDrippingBlack GirlWhite GirlBlack BoyNullificationJoining Hands Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.