Quotes About Youth

Some in his community were suspicious, too—how convenient that people always managed to almost drown themselves whenever young Reagan was around, and how annoying that he never seemed to shut up about it.

Nixon was becoming a discombobulated president, politically on the run. His interior secretary, Walter Hickel, posted a letter to the president that leaked to the Washington Star: "Youth in its protest must be heard." Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe were all young people in their day, Hickel argued; their "protests fell on deaf ears and finally led to war." (The president's response was to bulldoze the White House tennis court, beloved of Hickel.)

Succeeding in difficult times means perseverance, and that trait is not prevalent in these times. We are the now generation.

Once upon a time there was a girl named Debbie Jacobs and a boy named Teddy Dennis.

What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should've been named ADHD poster child of the year.

My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York. Am I a troubled kid? Yeah. You could say that.

Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.

He'd changed since the last summer. Instead of Bermuda shorts and a T-shirt, he wore a button-down shirt, khaki pants, and leather loafers. His sandy hair, which used to be so unruly, was now clipped short. He look like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college-age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

You never know when you're making a memory Rickie Lee Jones, from "Young Blood," Ricki Lee Jones (1979)

Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot.

He likes you, too." Finn repeated. "And don't tell me to shut up." "Shut up!" -Kingdom Keepers, Shell Game

But listen up Alex Rider.....

Lock up your daughters and hide your drugs (not that I would be looking for them because I never touch them).

Oisive jeunesse À tout asservie, Par délicatesse J'ai perdu ma vie.

I was having a great time, enjoying the best summer of my life, fucked up. Fucked up is good.

I was often overwhelmed as a boy by feelings of anxiety, and by profound embarrassment about the kind of family that I came from, my fears made worse by my inability to share them with anyone else or even to comprehend what they meant.

I write for the girl I once was, who found paradise in the pages of a book and pure music in the characters' voices . . .

When I was young, I was older than I am today.

If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can't imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in America's alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart — and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings.

I tell young people: Do not think of yourself, think of others. Think of the future that awaits you, think about what you can do and do not fear anything.

Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.

Garcia One Crazy Summer P.S. Be Eleven Gone Crazy in Alabama Blue Tights Every Time a Rainbow Dies Fast Talk on a Slow Track Jumped Like Sisters on the Homefront No Laughter Here