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Quotes About Youth

Applying the 80:20 rule, I would say that 80 per cent of our youth don't even care about politics or government. What they care about are their lives—their jobs, their boyfriends or girlfriends and, well, that's about it. We can call this set of people Self-focused Indifferent Indians.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Applying the 80:20 rule, I would say that 80 per cent of our youth don't even care about politics or government. What they care about are their lives—their jobs, their boyfriends or girlfriends and, well, that's about it.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Kids are among the most bored people in temples.
~ Chetan Bhagat
These millions of youth across the nation drive my politics. Unfortunately, the kind of politics we have practised and the governments that have resulted have ensured that we suffocate the talents of an entire generation.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Se bem que Benjamin Zambraia seja um senhor bastante conservado. Melhor: um rapaz recém-envelhecido.
~ Chico Buarque
My prime of youth is but a frost of cares;My feast of joy is but a dish of pain;My crop of corn is but a field of tares;And all my good is but vain hope of gain:The day is past, and yet I saw no sun;And now I live, and now my life is done.
~ Chidiock Tichborne
Of all animals, the boy is the most unmanageable...
~ Plato
Boys are perhaps beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of eighteen months and ninety years.
~ James Thurber
Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skillful. And best of all, it keeps them off the streets.
~ Author Unknown
Youth and love and a summer day— What fairer gifts could the gods bestow? Ah, could the golden time but stay, Of youth and love and a summer day!
~ Jean Wright, "The Golden Time"
We expect our teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
~ John Sculley, 1980s
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
When the boy is growing he has a wolf in his belly.
~ German proverb
The average income of the modern teenager is about 2 a.m.
~ Author Unknown
The average teenager still has all the faults his parents outgrew.
~ Author Unknown
...inwardly, we're much older than other girls our age. Even though I'm only fourteen... I feel I'm more of a person than a child...
~ Anne M. Frank, letter, 1944
Snow and adolescence are the only problems we can think of that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
~ Changing Times, 1954
Youth is a budd Life is a flower Springs in a moment Dyes in an hour Time is as sand Flesh is as glass Sand quick is run Life soon doth pass
~ Author Unknown
My world has no time except the seasons and the perspectives of youth and old age.
~ Tom Brown, Jr.
Ripe 'sparagrass, Fit for lad or lass, To make their water pass: O, 'tis pretty picking With a tender chicken!
~ Jonathan Swift, "Asparagus"
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driving license age than at voting age.
~ Marshall McLuhan, 1964
I suggested that he should write out the whole affair from beginning to end, knowing that ink might assist him to ease his mind. When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door. And this also is Literature.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Life is short — party hard!
~ American Saying
April dress'd in all his trim Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing...
~ William Shakespeare