Quotes About Youth

At Libertyville High, I was a bad student, chronic truant, and all-round incorrigible. I was forever being sent to the principal's office to be disciplined.

Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.

Young and dumb is something you gotta go through, but you've got to be a student.

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.

Whether you're an athlete or a student, having an adult who believes in you and can give you advice and wisdom that is coming from a place of experience is an incredible asset to help guide you through your young life.

I was the good girl. The straight A student, on the honour roll, part of the choir... I played the cello badly. I did plays.

When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

I was a straight-A student. But I was a bad lad.

The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry.

The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.

Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

I was a pretty disruptive student in class in school. I had a hard time paying attention. I had what they call A.D.D. now, back then I was just a hyper kid.

I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.

Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future; they occupy four years of a student's life, and an institution should do what it can to make these years absorbing and enjoyable.

I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested.

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

Though some student activists of the 1960s may have idolized Alinsky, he didn't particularly idolize them.

The nice thing about student drama is that you're allowed to get things wrong, because it doesn't mean no one will ever hire you again.

I went to high school in the 1970s and was a real daydreamer and not the best student.

The move to creating stories was a natural progression for me, but the most pivotal time was probably in 6th grade: That year, a friend introduced me to the stories of Ray Bradbury, and a student teacher introduced me to creative writing.

I was a good student; I was a good boy. I got A's, and I did all the papers right.