Quotes About Youth

Older people make this mistake all the time with younger people, treating them as a finished product when in fact they are in process.

Arrogance pedantry and dogmatism are the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

We didn't feel so good when we took our son to college and saw a sign on the liquor store - Back to School Sale.

"Do you think your boy will forget all he learned in college?" "I hope so. He can't make a living drinking."

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?

Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.

That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community.

When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff going on, then I would crack a joke to defuse the situation.

Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.

When I was 18 I was an emotional wreck and I couldn't imagine having to deal with some kind of fame.

When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.

Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When they see wickedness, they walk away.

I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.

Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.

Older guys have too much emotional baggage. They've already lived their lives.

During my teen years, I was real emotional. I could be really up or down.

I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.

I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.

I travel all over the country speaking to young people, and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.

When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.

Nutritional excellence is the only real fountain of youth.

It's really fun to see young kids trying to find excellence in themselves.

It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted.