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Quotes About Youth

Every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you're young, you don't know how to defend yourself.
~ Adriana Lima
When I was 14 years old, I was by no means trying to work professionally at all.
~ Alden Ehrenreich
In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it has more to do with who's involved with the project - who you're going to get in the boat with.
~ Alec Baldwin
I want to be a saint, a real saint while I am young, for there is so much work to do.
~ Allen Ginsberg
I like to work with children because their way of reacting to the world is simple, and they are innocent.
~ Andreas Koefoed
I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work... Now I can't get a dramatic role to save my life!
~ Anna Faris
City Year is taking on some of the toughest work in education.
~ Arne Duncan
No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work.
~ Barack Obama
The fact of the matter is I'm 21 now. I stay home. I feed my dogs. I don't really go out. I work.
~ Bijou Phillips
When we work all over the planet, it's mostly poor and black and brown and young people, because that's mostly what the world [environmentalism] is.
~ Bill McKibben
I bought singles until I started working properly and then I started buying albums, so this brings back a lot of teenage memories from being in London before I got work
~ Billy Ocean
I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.
~ Bobby Flay
Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.
~ C. S. Lewis
I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.
~ Carl Sandburg
I know our policies work best to lift young men and women up - regardless of their background - so that they can choose their own path and live lives of dignity, purpose, and meaning.
~ Carly Fiorina
I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.
~ Chaka Khan
I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films.
~ Charlotte Gainsbourg
I understand that if you're a kid in Indonesia, you need to smoke because you just got off work at the Nike factory.
~ Chelsea Handler
I'm amazed when I think about students today. They know from day one what they are going to be. We didn't. We just coasted. We just knew that things would work out.
~ Chinua Achebe
Throwing young men out of work, throwing people into poverty and ending business life don't promote stability in the Palestinian territories,.
~ Chris Patten
If you're smart you're just gonna be all about the work. But as a young person, you want to going out to clubs and doing all the stuff. I'm just glad I survived it.
~ Christian Bale
To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.
~ Dale Murphy
I work with a lot of kids. Every year, for the past fifteen years, I work at Comedy Camp where I work with a lot of kids.
~ Dane Cook
There are so many young talented actors today whose work I respect and admire - Ryan Gosling is probably primary among them. I take inspiration from so many amazing actors.
~ Daniel Sunjata