Quotes About Youth

I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily aware that their world is falling apart.

After starting as a journalist for newspapers and magazines, I began to write books and had success with a novel and four nonfiction books for young adults.

Young adults are honest readers. They won't stay with a book unless they have a reason, so it has to move along.

I'd like to encourage young adults to love themselves and others more.

It's important for teenagers, young adults, parents, teachers, really everyone to see what the true High School experience is.

Far too often, jobs and opportunities seem out of reach for young adults, especially in underserved, minority and low-income communities.

I've always been intrigued by questions of perception and identity-building, specifically how teens and young adults define themselves within their communities.

In my workshops for young adults, the most important thing I emphasize is that anything posted online, no matter how private they think it is, is permanent.

I was under the impression that if you've read one vampire series for young adults, you've read them all.

For years, young adults have adopted extremely liberal world views in their attempts to be different, ultimately failing to see the irony that they've all become the same.

In certain environments young adults can't choose their lives because of family pressure. In the bourgeoisie there is still a sense you will marry within that milieu.

I talked to a few schools about playing football, but I had already pretty much made my mind up. I fell in love with baseball at a young age, and I knew that that's what I wanted to do.

I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'

I was made fun of at a young age. I would fight a lot in the streets, and it has a lot to do with the way I am today. It helped my development as a fighter, but what can I say?

I started culinary school at a very young age, and really I wanted to be out working, cooking, more than I wanted to be in a classroom. You could say I wasn't a very good student - I wanted to be a student of life and experience.

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.

Science is a way of getting knowledge. It's a method. It's a method that really relies on making mistakes. We propose ideas, they are usually wrong, and we test them against the data. Scientists do this in a formal way. It's a way that everyone can go through life; that's how we should be teaching science from a very young age.

I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.

My mother is an incredibly beautiful woman who has laughed at every single thing my father's ever said. At a young age, my brother and I understood that if you can make girls laugh, you can punch well above your weight class.

I really loved football from a young age. And my only thought, my only objective in life, was to be a professional footballer.

I was a New York Jets fan growing up. My dad said I used to sit there at a very young age and watch football with him and tell him, 'I'm going to play for that team one day.'

When I was growing up, I was very lucky. My family was the most important thing to me. They provided me with somewhere safe to grow and learn, and I know I was fortunate not to have been confronted by serious adversity at a young age.

You look more like a legend when you accomplish a lot at a young age.

When at a young age you learn to face your fears, that makes the difference between people being champions and people not being champions.