Quotes About Youth

Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership.

I believe that if a seven-year old kid has heard of Naked Lunch and is daring enough to want to read it, he's old enough to read it.

You should want to be rich at 40, at 20 you should want to kill the rich; it's the right of youth

As soon as you stop listening to new music, your life is over. You are a fart.

John Waters Summer Camp

And no, the hit records of your generation are not better than today's. As soon as you stop listening to new music, your life is over. You are a fart.

While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time.

Ancient person, for whom I All the flattering youth defy, Long be it ere thou grow old, Aching, shaking, crazy, cold; But still continue as thou art, Ancient person of my heart.

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating. Youngsters need good models more than they need critics

No written word nor spoken plea Can teach our youth what they should be. Nor all the books on all the shelves. It's what the teachers are themselves.

when we are out of sympathy with the young, our work in this world is over.

There's nothing else in this world the color of a school bus. They call it yellow but it's not quite yellow, and it's not orange either. I'd say it's something somewhere in between margarine and Velveeta. It's not a natural color. Then again I guess if we wanted kids to grow up natural we wouldn't put them on a school bus in the first place.

Etter å ha gått på dans i forskjellige ungdomshus i nokre år og stort sett dansa åleine, fann eg ein gong ut, det må ha vore seint på kvelden, og einkvan må nok ha gitt meg tilstrekkeleg å drikke, at eg skulle be ei jente opp til dans.

The reason Agatha had never married was that when she was young and had the opportunities she hadn't felt the need, and later, feeling the need, she had no opportunities.

She'd never known a book lover to grow up to cause trouble.

Their silhouettes lingered in her mind. So did the sound of their kisses. She rose and went to the window and looked out over the busy playground. Children running, pulling, sliding, calling, spinning. If you traced all these children back to their beginnings, you came to kisses.

What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

My activism did not spring from being black...The racial injustice that was present in this country during my youth was a challenge to my belief in the oneness of the human family.

Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.

I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child.

When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.

Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?

My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.