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Quotes About Youth

In recent years, we have been sending a clear, consistent signal about the harms of drugs, particularly marijuana, which for most young people is the first illegal drug that they are exposed to.
~ John Walters
People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
~ Rachel Griffiths
In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.
~ John C. Hawkes
You never know how things will last, if they will last, and how people will use them in the future. It was a fun movie for young people at the time in the 80s; but it struck a cord with people and it has lasted so I'm very proud of being a part of that.
~ Blair Underwood
I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid.
~ Helmut Newton
I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.
~ R. Lee Ermey
It's important for young people to know that they are made the way they are made and they're beautiful and that's how they're supposed to be.
~ Raven-Symone
The highly motivated young people who comprise the backbone of our military force truly are taking their place as one of America's greatest generations.
~ Trent Lott
Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.
~ David Brooks
Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.
~ John Thorn
Most of my mail comes from young people.
~ Richard Wilson
We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option.
~ Peter MacKay
I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.
~ Billy Higgins
All too many young people are receiving mixed messages and inaccurate information about drugs.
~ John Walters
Educating young people about the harms of drugs is essential.
~ John Walters
It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.
~ James Loeb
What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt.
~ John Spratt
I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.
~ Mary Wesley
The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
~ Taye Diggs
It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.
~ Susan George
I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.
~ Isabelle Adjani
I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.
~ Nadia Comaneci
You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.
~ R. Lee Ermey
Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.
~ Dora Russell