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Quotes About Youth

Young people are not immune to following God's commands concerning discipline.
~ Monica Johnson
I get letters from young people telling me that they're broke and download my albums for free. They ask me what I think about that. I now have a standard line. I tell them, 'I would rather be heard than paid.'
~ Henry Rollins
Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are censored from hearing challenges to it. Let our young people understand science correctly and hear both sides of the origins issue and then evaluate them.
~ Ken Ham
Comedy Central is what these young people are viewing. The network speaks to their audience, which is saying, 'Give me fast jokes. Give me party stories and party language.'
~ Bill Cosby
Millions of Americans and people around the world, especially young people who face intense financial challenges today, haven't been taught how to take control of their financial future.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness.
~ Tim Crouch
The Trevor Project is committed to providing all young people, regardless of sexual identity, the opportunity to be heard and the encouragement to be themselves.
~ James Lecesne
Young people go to concerts.
~ John Oates
Errors in decision-making lead young people to under-save for retirement, doctors to miss tumours, CEOs to make catastrophic investments, governments to engage in needless wars, and parents to irreversibly traumatize their children.
~ Noreena Hertz
It's our responsibility for the village to say, 'Hey we're going to create these programs,' whether it's sports, creative arts, music, we need some things to give young people positive things to do, and that's including jobs.
~ Common
When I graduated high school, nearly a half-million people subscribed to 'Popular Electronics' magazine. Soldering up some radio or hi-fi amplifier on the basement workbench was not just a personal passion - a lot of young people were doing the same. The magazine expired in 1999 for lack of interest.
~ Seth Shostak
There's something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity.
~ Robbie Robertson
As a leader of a majority-Muslim nation, I believe Islamic countries must better understand what young people aspire to.
~ Najib Razak
'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.
~ Hannah Murray
Don't get me wrong: I love social websites like Facebook and Twitter, but I think it creates way too many opportunities for young people to bully.
~ Jillian Rose Reed
We need to create an ecosystem which will make young people want to start their own company.
~ Xavier Niel
When I talk to other young people, I try to be as straightforward as possible. I'm a kid. I love getting outdoors. You should get outside, too!
~ Nolan Gould
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the rest of the Ivy League are worthy institutions, to be sure, but they're not known for educating large numbers of poor young people.
~ Robert Reich
Our young people - their capacities to think, understand, investigate, and innovate - are America's future.
~ Robert Reich
Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.
~ Peter Coyote
I'm convinced that quite a lot of young people, when they get in trouble with the law, it's a cry for help there. Because it's not that they go out to offend. It's that their behaviour is self-parading, it's the big 'I'. And sometimes that means they're really lacking in confidence.
~ David Blunkett
I was ecstatic when we won - to host the Olympics is one of the biggest opportunities in living memory. It will help change the lives of young people and transform east London.
~ Sebastian Coe
Young people are better educated. They grew up in a society which is well connected, well informed. They are able to communicate to one another, to know what is happening.
~ Mo Ibrahim
It's time Africa started listening to our young people instead of always telling them what to do.
~ Mo Ibrahim