Quotes About Youth

The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.

I was always the kid down the street who got the other kids to put on a show. But it was only when I was 19, and discovered ballet and contemporary dance, that I got interested in the fact that you could have a whole evening of dance - rather than just waiting for the dancers in a musical.

For the most part, this record is autobiographical. At some point, the story of 'The Houston Kid' takes my experiences from 6 to 15 years old, and it sort of cross-pollinates with other kids in my neighborhood. It fuses their experiences with what was going on in my life.

Basketball gave me an avenue to live my dream, and I just want to help other kids live their dreams through me.

I just used to go to the same auditions with all these other kids I went to school with. I didn't feel like I was really good at acting. I didn't feel like I was a really talented person that needed to be doing this.

I remember my father, when I was a kid, retiring me on 50. He never used to let me bat past 50. He'd say I had to retire to give the other kids an opportunity.

It's important for kids to know they can be themselves, and that it's OK to have dreams and goals they love and that may not be cool or popular to other kids.

When I was a kid I was teaching the other kids how to dance the 'Dirty Dog.'

Landowners and influential men of all kinds, especially members of political councils, ought to set an example to the people. The young members of rich families should offer themselves for military service. If not one of two sons, at least one of three sons should be ready to do so.

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

I think that young Australians ought to be taking language education much more seriously. I mean, you know, every day I'm meeting people with expertise, ability and talent in fields where I want to learn so much more; science, for example.

When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

If they are going to have war, they ought to take the old men and leave the young to propagate the race.

I think Liberty students ought to date a lot without commitment in mind. If you're thinking commitment - and you probably shouldn't until you're a senior - you don't want to start your marriage off under the constraints of poverty and schooling.

I was barely 17 when our father decided to part ways with my mother.

We deliver many different messages to people of our generation. I want them to get good energy by listening to BTS music.

My motivation is, in part, a bit of angst that comes from feeling like I don't belong, that our generation doesn't belong.

I feel so guilty about the state of young people today. And I say that because our generation fought for everything. We fought to sit down at a counter, to sit on a bus. They were left with nothing to fight for.

In a way, 'Like Crazy' keys into our generation, this idea of now we can still be in communication. Where do the boundaries of relationships end?

I had heard so much negative talk about our generation, that we're slackers and young fogies, that I knew wasn't true of the people I know.

I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.

Falling in love in our generation just isn't as popular as it used to be.

Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.

I truly believe Lorde is the voice of our generation.