Quotes About Youth

The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.

Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.

I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.

That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.

Every election is about the future, which by definition means it's more about the future of young people than it is about me.

I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out.

I think for a lot of young people there is a sense that maybe the future is not going to be everything it was held out to be, especially if they're coming out with a lot of student debt.

I believe children are the future...which is why they must be stopped now!

Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.

It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.

I've heard that I'm 'the future of tennis.' But that's all just random stuff.

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

Because she was seventeen, and still alive, against thousands of years' worth of odds.Because she knew enough to fear what the future would bring.

I never thought basketball was going to be my future. I just wanted to play because it gets you girls.

We need to do whatever it takes to get our children together and pay attention to them, because that's our future. What's in the hearts and minds of our children is what's in our future.

Ensuring a healthy future means investing in the generation who will carry that future.

Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

When I receive letters from girls that say, 'You give me confidence,' I think, 'Wow, this is amazing.' That's my goal: to let people know it's truly what's on the inside that counts.

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.

This sounds crazy, but my goal is to be nominated for an Oscar. I was the kid who was practicing my acceptance speech when I was ten.