Quotes about Youth

The preoccupations of seventeen-year-old girls--their looks, their clothes, their social life--do not change very much from generation to generation. But in every generation there seem to be a few who make other choices. Amy was one of the few.

Home is the best place to teach young men and women about God's kind of love.

Half light, half shade,She stood, a sight to make an old man young.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they'll say, 'Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?' And they'll start tailing me. And I don't mind.

You will always worry - a wee lad from Edinburgh going up on stage in Glasgow.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

My father fought in the war, and then he was posted all 'round the world with his job. So I didn't know him very well when I was young.

In high school, all my friends' older brothers had these cars. I had a number of friends whose brothers collected Dodges and Plymouths and some of the coolest cars I've ever seen when I was a kid. I was just flabbergasted.

I've never been a great fan of crime fiction. I read Agatha Christie in my youth, but that's all.

At Liverpool, I used to read the match day programme, and you'd read an interview with a lad from the youth team. They'd ask age, heroes, strong points, etc. He'd reply, 'Shooting and tackling.' I can't get into my head that football development would educate tackling as a quality, something to learn, to teach, a characteristic of your play.

Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.