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Quotes About Juvenile

Conner Lassiter. Scheduled to be unwound the 21st of November-until you went AWOL. You caused an accident that killed a bus driver, left dozens of others injured, and shut down an interstate highway for hours. Then, on top of it, you took a hostage AND shot a Juvey-cop with his own tranq gun. ...He's the Akron AWOL?!
~ Neal Shusterman
In this value vacuum, Randy became increasingly incorrigible, resorting to vandalism of mailboxes and stop signs, hotwiring cars, committing petty thefts, unfunny pranks like squirting unsuspecting people with stolen fire extinguishers filled with paint, and similar anti-social acts that served as an outlet for his aggressions and frustrations from his family life, as well as a means of creating his own identity. In short, Randy became a juvenile delinquent.
~ Carlton Smith
Go Ahead, call me all the names you want," Sansa said airily. "You won't dare when I'm married to Joffrey. You'll have to bow and call me Your Grace." She shrieked as Arya flung the orange across the table. It caught her in the middle of the forehead with a wet squish and plopped down into her lap. "You have juice on your face, Your Grace ," Arya said.
~ George R.R. Martin
I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.
~ George W. Bush
If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.
~ Maureen Dowd
Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad.
~ Lewis Thomas
One, and she was the more juvenile in her appearance, though both were young, permitted glimpses of her dazzling complexion, fair golden hair, and bright blue eyes, to be caught, as she artlessly suffered the morning air to blow aside the green veil which descended low from her beaver.
~ James Fenimore Cooper
I was never very good at being an unemployed actor. I always thought that I should have been doing something pro-active. I was never good at doing juvenile leads. I suppose it's because I have this big sarcastic head on me.
~ Deirdre O'Kane
The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]
~ Juvenal
My teacher at RADA said I was going to have trouble when I left because I wasn't an obvious juvenile lead, although I could do both comedy and drama. But I understood enough to know that my career was going to be a marathon, not a sprint.
~ Anne Reid
The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.
~ Joseph Lancaster
I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh.
~ Andrew Rannells
At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.
~ Thom Yorke
The most money we have ever been able to get appropriated for the juvenile justice bills was $55 million a year, about one-tenth of what was necessary.
~ Bobby Scott
I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent from Newark who always dreamed about doing a movie.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
that kid's nothing but a little hoodlum.
~ James Patterson
I spent some time in juvenile detention, and as far as owning space, I may have owned too much space as a young boy, and it got me in trouble. But through that, I found some unity. I found acting, and that's become a place to exercise that.
~ Jonathan Majors
There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.
~ Juvenal
I had him arrested and put away. Good fucking riddance. I believe he went to juvenile detention. They told me it was his third time. Serial predator.
~ Tia Williams
Why should there be a different set of laws for criminals who are juveniles? As far as I am concerned there should be no reason for any leniency.
~ Suresh Gopi
I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.
~ Natsuo Kirino
Boyd aint goin nowhere. If I am he is. Boyd's a juvenile. They aint goin to turn him over to you. Hell. You're a juvenile yourself. I aint askin.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Fifty-eight years after he was first jailed for the most heinous crimes ever committed by a juvenile, Jesse Harding Pomeroy was free at last.
~ Harold Schechter
Although victims do not always become perpetrators, a truism repeated by prosecutors at sentencing, as if it were a profound revelation never before put into words, it is the rare serious perpetrator who was not also a victim. . . . It is the rare death row inmate whose life does not read like a case study of extreme deprivation and abuse. It is the rare juvenile incarcerated in an adult prison for rape or murder who has had anything other than the cruelest of childhoods.
~ Lee Gutkind