“... no one wanted to think about the gangs of no-hope teenagers who already took over the nearby park all day, drinking… — Meera Syal Copy Share Image
After the rigged Iranian presidential elections in 2009, the Islamic regime attacked the 'humanities' as the main source of protests, the most… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I think people discredit teenagers and how wise they can be. Sometimes I meet teenagers who are much wiser than many adults… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
“When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
As a teenager, my struggle was how do I balance being empathetic and compassionate towards my peers, while also living my life… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
The age doesn't really matter to me as it seems to matter to other people. A lot of people think that youth… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
It's really rare as a teenager to be offered a role that actually resembles what it's like to be a teenager, because… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, as we read, two little girls slept as if couched on zephyrs on the south side of the parlor floor, in… — Mary Cantwell Copy Share Image
Encouraging young people to integrate themselves with their peers, overcome prejudices, and seek out positive activities that will better not only their… — Tanni Grey-Thompson Copy Share Image
I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my… — Monte Irvin Copy Share Image
I tell young people that people aren't just going to flock to you as your mentors. You have to seek them out.… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
Where's the hope that can abate The grief of hearts thus desolate That can Youth's keenest pangs assuage, And mitigate the gloom… — Thomas Haynes Bayly Copy Share Image
In my youth, cinemas showed two films in one day. I used to watch both of them. It may sound strange, but… — Ennio Morricone Copy Share Image
Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Hordes of young girls never copied my hairdos or the way I talk or the way I dress. I have, therefore, never… — Simone Signoret Copy Share Image
“We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Few places in American culture have made as effective a case for entrepreneurship than hip-hop. Hip-hop tells young people that our society… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
I haven't written poetry in a long time but I read it and I miss it. It is so hard to write.… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Without making mistakes we would've never learned how to better ourselves. By making mistakes it gives us an opportunity to do and… — Surgeo Bell Copy Share Image
“In our world today, the accent is on youth. Everyone wants to look young, feel young, and be young… Although there is… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Adolescence is best enjoyed without self-consciousness, but self-consciousness, unfortunately, is its leading symptom. Even when something important happens to you, even when… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
It may comfort you to know that if your child reaches the age of eleven or twelve and you have a good… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
I was very, very young when I first started acting. My first movie role I was in, I was eight years old… — Cameron Monaghan Copy Share Image
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan,… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“When the winds arrive and leaves fall to coat the forest floor, youth recedes and you come to the horizon of your… — Leonide Martin Copy Share Image
It has always been a source of serious reflection and sincere regret with me that the youth of the United States should… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
For though, as we have said, all children are heartless, this is not precisely true of teenagers. Teenage hearts are raw and… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Teachers give so much to the future and to youth. So, when you see somebody make that type of sacrifice towards work… — Common Copy Share Image
Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping… — Justin Rosenstein Copy Share Image
[My father] would be proud, he would hug me and he would be sitting front-row at all the events where I talk… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I was doing a show at the National Youth Theatre, playing an old man. Before that I had played fat clowns and… — Harry Melling Copy Share Image
“Phineas created an atmosphere in which I continued now to live, a way of sizing up the world with erratic and entirely… — John Knowles Copy Share Image