Quotes About Youth

Also a Friday night, which meant crowds of young people being horribly drunk and loud in two dozen languages.

There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.

I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.

When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner.

I try not to jump to conclusions about anything I feel I've seen or heard before. I try not to write off music my kids play me as "throwback" even if it closely resembles something that I thought was new when I was a kid. Sure, I want to put on the seventies' English band the Jam and say, See! Your new little punk bands are just shiny versions of this! But I'd be wrong. To diminish the new as nothing more than a rehash is a mistake.

the business of being a child in this country is rapidly disappearing into an abyss that consists not only of programs and tests but also of extracurricular activities.

I dropped out of high school to pursue a self-designed study program in excessively loud heavy metal music and extreme partying. - From his blog

What I knew as much by instinct as by training was that when a boy like Jacob shows up in your cramped but light-filled office, you should not under any circumstances ask him to account for his behavior[...] Jacob would be the last person capable of such an account; if he had the language he wouldn't express himself with symptoms.

The psychiatrists—Eric was among the youngest—often put these kids on Haldol; more than one came to me exhibiting, as a result of the mysterious pill, "tardive dyskinesia"—involuntarily sticking out their tongues, clenching and unclenching their jaws, smacking their lips.)

They felt at once profoundly numb and profoundly ecstatic to be young and inflicting optional damage on each other;

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

At the age of nineteen, Gordievsky took up cross-country running. Something about the solitary nature of the sport appealed to him, the rhythm of intense exertion over a long period, in private competition with himself, testing his own limits.

These letters may have been the closest Hester Leggett ever came to romance: chattering pastiches of a young woman madly in love, and with little time for grammar.

The other kids formed a roving pack, moving like one of those clusters of birds that seem to share a single, frantic brain.

How fickle is my young male heart as it avidly jumps from love to love

They were skeptical of my youth and inexperience, probably rightly so.

we both strongly believed all children deserved a quality education.

As a teenager, I could hardly wait to leave Dillon. But as I grew older,

European unemployment has been concentrated among the young,

is not right that children be dunked headfirst into the vat of garbage we call popular culture.

There are few colleges or universities where parents may send their sons and daughters without their being contaminated with some phase of the vilest of Communistic and allied teaching," cautioned Roscoe Dorsey of the National Republic magazine.

The brainwashing of students by the university system is one of the most severe problems plaguing America's youth.