Quotes about Youth

There are kids out there. We've got to show them the right way. That's the only way. People aren't born racist. C'mon now. We've got to show the way.

By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.

I'm still a kid in his bedroom, writing songs and playing them.

The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the animal that doesn't know what to do with itself. The mind has many possibilities, but we can live no more than one life. What are we going to do with ourselves?

There, just inside the gates, was Mary. He was only six, but even then he knew that never would he see again anything so beautiful. She was five; but there was something in her manner of holding herself and the imperious tilt of her head which made her seem almost five-and-a-half. [From John Penquarto A Tale of Literary Life in London

Well, you both went out with the blue balloon, and you took your gun with you, just in case, as you always did

When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.

I wanted to be a pastor. I was going to be a youth pastor. I mean, I play guitar; I like to make people laugh.