Quotes About Youth

Harassment is one of puberty's darkest, most unreported rites of passage.

Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.

I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state.

No family should feel they need to leave San Francisco to find a great public education.

When we talk about public education, we don't worry about a district. We don't focus on an individual school or a building when we talk about education. We talk about kids and what's best for kids. It doesn't matter what's best for the adults; what matters is what's best for the individual kids.

I'm young: I've lived my life in the public eye, and I've had to figure out how to do that.

Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'

As an artist, you know as a person in the public eye, period, you kind of have a responsibility to the younger kids that are watching and emulating what you do.

I remember being in high school and trying to absorb the knowledge that people in the public eye had to give.

Growing up in the public eye isn't easy.

When you are younger, you think money is happiness, your importance are your friends. Your public image is important. And then, something happens and you realise family is the most important.

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.

We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and I did not adapt very well to the, to the style of the place, and I spent most of my time in the public library.

I was definitely one of those kids who, for whatever reason, followed politics and public policy.

I am committed to improving public safety outcomes from our state's juvenile justice system.

The music departments in the public school system gave me a really extraordinary foundation and music appreciation that I still draw from, even today.

I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of the school band. I was just a normal kid taking instrumental lessons at school, nothing special.

I went to public school up until junior high.

I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.

Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.

Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school.

I like Public School and En Noir.

I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.

Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.