Quotes about Youth
Girls, sometimes I feel as if those exams mean everything, but when I look at the big buds swelling on those chestnut trees and the misty blue air at the end of the streets they don't seem half so important.
— LM Montgomery
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
— Martin Luther
A youth is to be regarded with respect.
— Confucius
The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
— Oscar Wilde
How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?
— John Updike
When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert DeNiro and as experienced as him and have the same respect as he did in that movie.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth. The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker. They are more easily excited; they are more violent and apparent, but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in mature life.
— Zig Ziglar
Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.
— Dennis Prager
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
— Euripides
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
— Francois Rabelais
It is time for a new generation of leadership.
— John F. Kennedy
We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation
— Nick Vujicic