Quotes about Youth

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

I am not sure how old I was when I began to worry about being saved, but it was sometime in my early teens.

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

If you have a temper, now is the time to learn to control it. The more you do so while you are young, the more easily it will happen.

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

The church doesn't lose its kids when they go to college. We start losing them in middle school. We lose children in the church when we send them out of worship to children's church or Sunday school. This is one reason why Jesus kept insisting, "Let the little children come to me."[222

The Mad Hatter: Would you like some wine? Alice: Yes... The Mad Hatter: We haven't any and you're too young.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.

If our young people could but glimpse it, it would be the most powerful spiritual motivation of their lives!