Quotes About Youth

When we're young, and we dream of love and fulfillment, we think perhaps of moon-drenched Parisian nights or walks along the beach at sundown. No one tells us that the greatest moments of a lifetime are fleeting, unplanned and nearly always catch us off guard.

Guys were first effigies, then urchins. But always male

The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we have to say: The oldest hath borne most; we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.'" Then

Youth's a stuff will not endure.

Draw a floor plan of the house you lived in as a child, including all the floors.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

But many people do not fully realize that there are terrible consequences when people becoming things. Self-image is deeply affected. The self-esteem of girls plummets as they reach adolescence partly because they cannot possibly escape the message that their bodies are objects, and imperfect objects at that. Boys learn that masculinity requires a kind of ruthlessness, even brutality. Violence becomes inevitable.

Children growing up today are bombarded from a very early age with graphic messages about sex and sexiness in the media and popular culture.

Jennifer thought it must be abnormal for such a young child to be thinking about diets, let alone wanting boys to like her for being "pretty" and "sexy.

Parents have always noticed how their children's world differs from the world of their own childhood, but what is happening now regarding sex and sexuality in the media and popular culture goes far beyond the changes that have occurred between other generations in the past. A revolution is taking place that we need to take seriously.

But if the great ideas of the past are to remain young and vital, each generation must, in turn, think them through and rediscover them in their pristine newness.

Adolescence--the time when teens begin to do things adults do--now happens later. Thirteen-year-olds--and even 18-year-olds-- are less likely to act like adults and spend their time like adults. They are more likely, instead, to act like children--not by being immature, necessarily, but by postponing the usual activities of adults. Adolescence is now an extension of childhood rather than the beginning of adulthood.

iGen'ers are more likely than any generation before them to be raised by religiously unaffiliated parents.

iGen is on the verge of the most severe mental health crisis for young people in decades. On the surface, though, everything is fine.

Fewer teens having sex is one of the reasons behind what many see as one of the most positive youth trends in recent years: the teen birthrate hit an all-time low in 2015, cut by more than half since its modern peak in the early 1990s.

By 2014, more 18- to 34-year-olds were living with their parents than with a spouse or romantic partner.

iGen'ers' drumbeats of growing up slowly, individualism, and safety all manifest themselves in their exceedingly cautious attitude toward relationships.

The trends that have shaped iGen are the usual mix of good and bad, with a healthy amount of "it depends" thrown in.

only 28% of 12th graders in 2015 attended services once a week, down from 40% in 1976.

In the next decade we may see more young people who know just the right emoji for a situation—but not the right facial expression.

A stunning 31% more 8th and 10th graders felt lonely in 2015 than in 2011, along with 22% more 12th graders

No matter what the cause, the result is the same: iGen teens are less likely to experience the freedom of being out of the house without their parents--those first tantalizing tastes of the independence of being an adult, those times when teens make their own decisions, good or bad.

All in all, iGen'ers are increasingly disconnected from human relationships—

many iGen students seem to see their schools as behind the times, irrelevant in a fast-paced world of constantly changing technology.