Quotes About Youth

This is not politics... it's to protect the innocence of children.

At 23 years old, I came into politics as a dragon slayer. At 63 years old, I'm going out as a dragon.

I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works.

Young people need to re-engage with politics. The life of democracy depends on it. We've left it to the stuff shirts, and obviously they haven't been minding the store.

I got into politics when I was eight years old.

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

When I first started, my songs were the politics of anger. As I got older and hopefully wiser, I wanted to be part of the politics of answers.

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.

If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure.

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.

I just want to leave a positive memory of setting an example and bringing our youth with us.

Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.

I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.

I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.

At 13, I was fearless. I looked at everything so positive. When you're older and been through it all, you know how bad it can get. There is a fear of failing.

The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.

When I was younger I wish I'd known that what often seemed to be the 'end of the world' often turned out to be a positive and transformative experience!

For me, the most important thing is to continue to play well and to be a positive figure and hopefully a role model for kids as well.

I don't know any teenager with a positive attitude.

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact?

You are young, and in love. Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.

I don't think rock music has any positive function.

In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.