Quotes About Youth

We cheated on our math tests, we carved some dirty words on the desk.

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the nation's sake.

We're gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it's gonna be alright.

An athletic scholarship shouldn't be the best opportunity to receive a quality education.

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

School's out forever, school's been blown to pieces.

Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.

I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.

I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].

Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of cultural aggression.

The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.

I don't know anywhere where the people are hungrier for education than South Sudan.

Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.

Over 20 million children of conflict are out of school. Education is often forgotten.

Unfortunately, at present, practically no one under thirty goes to workshops. It's a system of education entirely for the middle aged.

The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.

I'm not just writing songs that are narrating my life, but everyone else around my age because they're super-relatable.

I do speak my mind a lot more than when I was younger. I guess that's just my Polynesian background. That's how we are: just sit back and try and fit in, try and make everyone else happy.

When I was young, I always enjoyed watching skilful players and trying to emulate them the same as everyone else.

When you make a young player feel young, it doesn't necessarily help them - they often want to be treated like everyone else. If you respect their talent, then that can give them the confidence to express themselves.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.