Quotes About Youth

Still children into their twenties, this generation

Gone was the slightest implication of compassion if it had ever existed before. "I have seen young boys burned alive," he said. "I have seen Iranian and Iraqi boys tearing each other literally with their nails and teeth. It is raging hate against raging hate.

I believe in what Setsuna said with all my heart. He's the eternal peerless youth.

If innocence is believing the world is a safe and just place. That summer I lost mine.

Were they happy years, do you think?' I ask Grégoire. 'Well, if I'm not happy now, I must have been happy then. When I was at the Lycée, I wanted to be in France, to be free, to be myself. Now that I'm in France, I wish I could come back here, to be at home again. I feel more connected with the past than with the present. Is that normal?' 'I don't know,' I say. 'Probably not. But at least you feel connected with something.

Youth are the power that dictators hate

The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in and I've been shooting it ever since.

A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

He spent all of his twenty-three years operating at only one speed and in one direction, furious and forward, convinced that a collision could only improve the ride.

When I was younger, I watched Spiderman, and they had the Green Goblin, and before the Green Goblin died, he told Spiderman that it wasn't him, it was the Green Goblin that was killing all those people. I thought, 'Hmm, I should try to change my personality sometimes when it comes to interviews.'

I've loved Basquiat since I was 13. From his artwork to his interviews to the way he thought about things, I've always been excited by him.

I sort of played with the bad-boy thing, and I gave a couple of interviews where I said stupid things.

When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Heaven Up Here'... I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life.

I am not intimidated by puerile boys acting like pre-teens.

I'm friendly - I've never changed - but some people can be intimidated to approach you, especially younger footballers.

That weird dark energy - when I was a kid, I didn't know what it was. I just had to 'thrash it out,' as my mother called it. I became quite intolerable, creatively and artistically, with other people. I wanted nothing more than to be part of a group, and yet I couldn't help alienating people.

The why of why we are here is an intrigue for adolescents; the how is what must command the living.

When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.

I've long wanted to introduce children to the wonder of the arts.

I'd definitely like to give back. I know a lot of kids watch college wrestling, and a lot of kids watch me, want to meet me and introduce themselves.