Quotes About Youth

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.

I would go back to the past and watch one of the early Beatles shows, because they were such a massive part of cultural history. As a younger person, you feel you missed out on that.

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.

Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.

I have met so many young people who do not see the church as relevant and do not consider the Bible a real book of history that can be trusted.

Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.

I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history that they polish it up and make it shine like a treasured heirloom.

Young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.

History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.

Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.

In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.

I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)

I don't blame younger generations for their lack of awareness. Americans in general are not interested in history.

We know from past history that when young people vote for one party a couple of times, they tend to vote for that party during their adult lifetimes in disproportionate numbers.

Nowadays, with history not being taught anymore in American public schools, self-esteem is taking its place.

Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.

The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible.

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories / Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.