Quotes about Youth

Television has changed a child from an irresistible force to an immovable object.

Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

A truly special teacher is very wise, and sees tomorrow in every child's eyes.

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.

A lotta years I was out there on the road pulling one-nighters. Then I got hired to sing in Sam Donahue's band in 1963. I was 19 years old.

The first music I heard that made me put away my comic books and make music was original punk.

First and foremost, we have to ensure that we have to get our own kids ready for work so that employers want to take them on.

I used to wait in line for Jordans. That's how much of a freak I was.

In spring, Granny would send me off to pick bluets, violets, and windflowers. As the weeks passed, she'd ask for yellow lady's slippers and bleeding hearts, then roses and white rhododendron clusters that grew along the stream. She'd always seem to know the day when the mayflies danced and died. When I'd come back from whatever venture she'd sent me on, she'd talk about how life was precious.

Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.

Crime was up, especially among the youth; simple, common trust in one's neighbor was diminishing; never had the town been so full of rumors, scandals, and malicious gossip. In the shadow of fear and suspicion, life here was gradually losing its joy and simplicity, and no one seemed to know why or how.

Frank Herbert warned young people not to trust government, telling them that the American founding fathers had understood this and had attempted to establish safeguards in the Constitution.