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.

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.

A youth is to be regarded with respect.

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?

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.

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.

Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.

It is time for a new generation of leadership.

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