Quotes About Youth

I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.

I don't know how many serious Christians exist here in America, but the Japanese, the younger generation is leaving the Buddhist religion mentality behind.

When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.

O Lord, I wish to promote thy holy religion which is dreadfully neglected. I am desirous to save young persons from the vices of the age.

I broke with my religion in college.

There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism.

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord in his wisdom didn't work that way. So I just stole one and asked him to forgive me.

The problem with this generation is they are so quick to define who they are in the process of searching. It is their need for immediate acceptance that keeps them from exploring further.

Willmore: There is no sinner like a young saint.

. . .the young man who rings the bell at the brothel is unconsciously looking for God.

By the time I turned fifteen, Communism had become my religion.

I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.

I think it's great that she's not perfect and wasn't perfect. I think that's maybe why so many young girls and different people look up to Mac and respect her even more.

When I was a kid I got no respect. I played hide-and-seek. They wouldn't even look for me.

A youth is to be regarded with respect.

The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring.

I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

I often tease young people about their concern for how they look; more important is inner beauty - compassion, affection and respect.