Quotes About Youth

Just Kids, de Patti Smith:

You're too young." Most of history was built by young people. They just got credit when they were older.

Well, I decided to flip it around and travel when I was really young, when I had zero money. And I had experiences that, basically, even a billion dollars couldn't have bought.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

I was ovulated, fertilized, and born in the 20th century. I can't wipe out my whole personal background, or the fact that almost everyone I talk to today is brain-damaged by our education. I think American education makes us hopeless symbol addicts. It's designed to produce docile automatons. But it's going to take years before you can urge young people to drop out of school without appearing to be an eccentric or a mad-man.

ÖÄŸretmenler, soyut kavramlar icat etmeye ve yaratmaya haz?r olan "düÅŸünen" s?n?f?n genç üyeleri ile s?k s?k sorun yaÅŸarlar. Bu s?n?f?n yaln?zca mevcut sembol tekniklerine maruz kalmas? yeterlidir. Sembolleri gerçekten anlamaya haz?rd?rlar böylece onlar? geliÅŸtirebilirler.

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind

This faulty model places the professional minister at the center and makes gaining and retaining students the goal. In the case of student ministry, it turns youth group into a holding pattern for the church's future instead of calling students to live as servants of the gospel in their community of faith here and now.

You were young, I thought, not once but always before, always always, every day before the day just passed. You were young only minutes ago.

generations have laid before them. One thing is certain: If young people do not begin to make history, politicians of eternity and inevitability will destroy it. And

If young people do not begin to make history, politicians of eternity and inevitability will destroy it. And

If young people do not begin to make history, politicians of eternity and inevitability will destroy it. And to make history, young Americans will have to know some. This is not the end, but a beginning.

to make history, young Americans will have to know some. This is not the end, but a beginning.

One novel known by millions of young Americans that offers an account of tyranny and resistance is J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

If young people do not begin to make history, politicians and inevitability will destroy it.

Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves.

I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

Why did I practically flee from home when I was fifteen, to go and wash dishes all over Europe? Why, when I arrived in Asia, did I feel so much at home that I stayed there. The wish to get as far away as possible from the poverty-stricken world of my childhood? Perhaps.

There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous.

When we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disposed to act in our best interests, and that falling and dying are for quitters. We live on the innocent and monstrous assurance that we alone, of all the people ever born, have a special arrangement whereby we will be allowed to stay green forever

I want to tell her that it's like flying with paper wings—that when you're a child, it seems possible—but when you grow up it just sounds doomed for failure.

In 1998, the New York Times reported that "in the [annual UCLA] survey taken at the start of the fall semester, 74.9 percent of freshmen chose being well off as an essential goal and 40.8 percent chose developing a philosophy. In 1968, the numbers were reversed, with 40.8 percent selecting financial security and 82.5 percent citing the importance of developing a philosophy."4

If you've never known someone your own age who's died, you can't imagine what it feels like. It's as if you were walking on a glass floor and it suddenly shatters and now you're falling and falling and there's broken glass in the air all around you and no bottom in sight.