Quotes About Youth

A remarkably disciplined scholar, Jefferson spent money on books the way less purposeful young men spent it on whiskey or women.

In the United States of America there are twenty-seven million people under twenty-one years of age who receive no Christian training at all. Juvenile crime in the big cities is tremendous—sometimes it seems absolutely out of control. Every week one million people are dying without Jesus. In one minute, eighty-five people pass into eternity. In just the brief span of a church service hundreds are passing out into the presence of God. Does that mean anything to you?

Satchell Paige once posed the question, "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.

They've youth; they'll walk it out like a favorite pair trainers.

They've youth; they'll walk it out like a favorite pair pf trainers.

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.

I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.

I see bundling as a really important step in the journey toward marriage becoming a marriage of personal choice, rather than something you're just forced into by your parents for economic reasons, because you don't have to marry the man or woman after the night of bundling.

I got married when I was 24 and met my husband when I was 22, so what I know about men in a personal experience could literally fill an index card.

I feel that kids are smart, and I feel that kids will understand things even if they don't understand them from personal experience.

From what I've read, Gen Z largely favors players over teams and that's one of the reasons it's so important to showcase MLB player personalities.

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

Because of my personality, I'm able to connect with kids on a personal level.

Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.

Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm.

I'm 25, but I look like I'm 16 so I don't really don't consider age personally.