Quotes About Youth

All through the student years, I was at the top of my class although I was two years younger than everybody else.

I was the class clown, but I was also student body president in high school.

Profiting from student loans is usury, and we just can't continue to allow it.

I know what it's like to be faced with student loans, to have rent so high you don't know if you're ever going to be able to save up and buy a home. The issues the people of my generation are going through are natural for me because I've lived them, my friends are living them.

The harassment and the bullying that students face is a learned behavior.

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.

There is a huge gap between what students want for their future and what their schools are offering.

Students often say things that they will one day change their minds about, but also things that change our minds when we think about them.

A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.

More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.

At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.

A lot of students who are 18 or 19 go to college partly for the social aspect of it. At the community college, people's goals are a little different. Their needs are more immediate.

Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career or start college and to dramatically increase the number of students that graduate from college.

Both in the short-run and the long-run, college students, collectively, have enormous spending power.

When any artist performs for students, it automatically means they are getting a young crowd.

Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college.

On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.

I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.

I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me.

I know exactly what I will do. I will go and work with the Congress of South African Students.

In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school.

And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again.