Quotes About Youth

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!

As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

Gene Kelly was a great dancer and I was lucky to be in 'Singin' in the Rain.' He was my teacher when I was 17 years old, when he was 37 years old. He taught me everything.

No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

Kids don't lack capacity, only teachers.

When we are young, parents and teachers tell us we can do anything and become whatever we want. But as we grow older, these same people tell us we must be more realistic.

Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.

I think for real change to happen, it's going to have to come from the kids, the community, the teachers, the parents.

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

When I was at school I got lines for dropping a big squelchy, loud fart. My teacher, who was a priest, made me write 'I must not fart in class' 100 times. I left that school shortly afterwards.

We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.

When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.

Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.

The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.

Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.

I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology because my dad was a science teacher. I kept writing all those years.

I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the teachers and librarians that I interact with.

I want every math teacher to know math. I want every science teacher to have expertise in science. I want them to know how to inspire and engage young people.