Quotes About Youth

Polls show that while students who just finished high school believe in an active God at a rate of 77 percent, once students reach the level of postgraduate education, that rate drops to 65 percent.70 This may be due to youthful arrogance; more likely, it is due, at least in large part, to the anti-God bias of the universities.

The universities accept into their waiting clutches young, open-minded students ready to learn. They turn out mainstream liberals, spouting the Democratic party line—and that's just the "moderate" students.

The higher education system indoctrinates America's youth. The vast majority of the professoriate is leftist. This is an uncontested fact.

Concerned about the societal fallout from sexual promiscuity? Mind your own business. Worried about the rise of single motherhood? Mind your own business. Upset about an epidemic of young people seemingly willing to trade the responsibilities of adulthood for an infantilized freedom? Mind your own business.

When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

I think it's ridiculous that kids have to try to decide at eighteen years old what the hell they want to be.

I know death comes. Ive seen too much death, young death.

I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.

The girls Have the brief-blooming, rhododendron-youth Of pioneer women, and the black-toothed age. And if you yearn to meet your pioneers, You'll find them there, the same men, inbred sons Of inbred sires perhaps, but still the same; A pioneer-island in a world that has No use for pioneers--the unsplit rock Of Fundamentalism, calomel, Clan-virtues, clannish vices, fiddle-tunes And a harsh God.

And I have listened also, in my youth, And more than once or twice, To the trained speech, the excellent advice, The clear, dramatic statement of the sum, And, after it was dumb, Heard, like a spook, the curious echo come, The echo of unkempt and drawling mirth --The lounging mirth of cracker-barrel men, Snowed in by winter, spitting at the fire, And telling the disreputable truth With the sad eye that marks the perfect liar-- And, by that laughter, was set free again.

Every boy knows he is immortal, but his parents, they are not so sure.

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Parece buen muchacho ese Pablo.

Doña Flora de Cisniega era una vieja que se empeñaba en permanecer joven: tenía más de cincuenta años; pero ponía en práctica todos los artificios imaginables para engañar al mundo, aparentando la mitad de aquella cifra aterradora.

Another circumstance of note was the fact that they never spoke about the past: that particular novel, they both seemed to agree, was over and done with, doubtless because it seemed so improbable and false, rather like the books we were mad about in our youth and which, in our maturity, seem somewhat paltry.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

A man who is not a Liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a Conservative at sixty has no head.

Yo tenía esa edad en la que el menor gesto de bondad parece una prueba de amistad eterna.

The boy was still there, inside the young man's body. It was the same with all of them, all the men she had ever known, in her family or outside it; they reverted to childhood when they were hurt, or sad, or in trouble.

Mal Griffin, Sarah, él mismo a los veinte años, y Delia, su futura esposa,

In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.

Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.

There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.