Quotes about Youth

Also while I was at Missouri, I was elected president of the Burall Bible Class—a huge class made up of students from both Missouri and Stephens College. Growing up, I had always gone to church and Sunday school every Sunday; it was an important part of my life. I don't know that I was that religious, per se, but I always felt like the church was important.

He that adopts the sentiments of another whom he has reason to believe wiser than himself is only to be blamed when he claims the honours which are not due but to the author, and endeavours to deceive the world into praise and veneration; for to learn is the proper business of youth; and whether we increase our knowledge by books, or by conversation, we are equally indebted to foreign assistance.

THERE'S A YIDDISH PROVERB YOU'LL FIND quoted in many books on parenting: "Little children disturb your sleep; big children your life.

The good die young — because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.

I want a lot of young people to see me in my working environment. I want them to see me being a good person while also running a business. I want young people to aspire to that.

We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.

The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

People are funny. When they are young, they will spend their health to get wealth. Later, they will gladly pay all they have trying to get their health back.

I have met so many young people who do not see the church as relevant and do not consider the Bible a real book of history that can be trusted.