Quotes About Youth

The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.

I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.

I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church.

I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things.

I have great faith in the millennials and in what they understand about social media, and how they're going to be able to counter fascist forces as they come.

I think kids should go to high school until they're 30. No, really, because people are staying younger now and there's nothing to do. If you stayed longer, then it would be really great.

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.

Opening for Louis C.K. during his "Hilarious" tour was a great experience for me. He is the generation just ahead of me, because he started so young.

The literary scene is filled with young people now, which is a great joy. They seem fully capable of saving the world, as we failed to do when young, though heaven knows we tried.

I am a great supporter of [Matteo ] Renzi, he is young, he knows how to communicate, he's our great hope.

I'm 44 years old. So, it's really great to watch younger generations getting their opportunities, and being there to support them in that.

I think lowering the age of consent to thirteen in New Jersey was a great idea. It might give boys a better chance to get girls before maga­zines. That's when they get hooked, in junior high.

Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids... the baby boom generation were all in the area. It was just a really great place.

A lot of kids are moving to Baltimore, because we have a great music scene and we've got edge. Come on down, we've got scary edge. But great edge - it's still a city you can be a bohemian in.

When you're seventeen years old, green and inexperienced, you're grateful for any guidance and direction you can get.

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.