Young People Quotes

“Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.”
― Rick Riordan

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
― Maya Angelou

“The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile.”
― Alvin Toffler

“Build yourself up to stand out
and be recognized in a crowd.”
― Ansuman Bhagat, Your Own Thought: A Lot of Thoughts

“Horses change lives. They give out young people confidence and self-esteem. They provide peace and tranquility to troubled souls, they give us hope.”
― Toni Robinson

“... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.”
― Malcolm X, Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power

“Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner, Kingdoms of Elfin

“Like all young people, you are quite sure that you alone feel and think, you alone recognize danger, you alone are the only one clever enough to realise...”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

“The Angel of Death is always a young person, or a group of young people, you'll begin seeing them left and right soon.”
― Benjamin R. Smith

“Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“My happiness waned, and from that day forward I couldn’t bear anything that suggested I was feminine. I was determined to be a boy. It wasn’t anything I believed I had control over, I just knew I wasn’t right and I had to live my life in the most comfortable way for me, regardless of what anyone else thought or did.”
― Troian Anderson, The Light of Winter

“Age and truth. Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“[Y]oung people of all identities and communities worldwide continuously reveal
themselves to be more capable, powerful, active, and progressive than they are
ever given credit for.”
― Adam F.C. Fletcher, Democracy Deficit Disorder: Learning Democracy with Young People

“[Y]oung people of all identities and communities worldwide continuously reveal themselves to be more capable, powerful, active, and progressive than they are ever given credit for.”
― Adam F.C. Fletcher, Democracy Deficit Disorder: Learning Democracy with Young People

“Democracy is on the ropes, with double- and triple-blows punching at it from crass consumerism, commonplace fascism and runaway capitalism. All of this leaves young people in the cross-hairs of politicians, executive directors, funders, and evaluators, each of whom is ready and eager to pull the trigger. By doing this, they lay waste to the present as well as the future, sacrificing children and youth to line their own pockets, perpetuate their missions, and dismantle society as we have known it.”
― Adam F.C. Fletcher, Democracy Deficit Disorder: Learning Democracy with Young People

“Occurring in every situation throughout society—including home, school, the community, government, and elsewhere—the adult fragility that leads to adultism can pummel organizations, institutions, communities, and individuals everywhere.”
― Adam F.C. Fletcher, Democracy Deficit Disorder: Learning Democracy with Young People

“Youth is not a number, but a state of awareness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Vilken tur att hon är arton då, svarar Ben. Då är hennes föräldrars åsikter om vad hon borde göra med sitt liv inte längre så viktiga.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“Young people had always wanted to do things their own way, and Bert had been no different. Only nowadays, there seemed to be this compulsion to eat up everything that was available to you and to let everybody know about it in real time, without figuring out things for yourself first.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

“Every time period is covered with glitter and sparkle, a blanket over havoc.”
― Angely Kahn, My Caramel

“...det känns som att alla i vår ålder bara vill prata om framtiden. Vad som händer efter skolan, vart alla ska resa, vad alla ska göra. Det är väldigt få som tar sig tid att lyssna på det som händer här och nu.”
― Callum Bloodworth, Berätta tre saker

“Like most young men who have read much, Galus spoke with a naïve satisfaction in words, picturesque expressions and comparisons, and with a tendency to generalize, whereas Bahtijarević spoke dryly, curtly, almost indifferently.”
― Ivo Andrić, The Bridge on the Drina

“Young people do not try to avoid quarrels, even as young animals easily take part in rough and violent games among themselves.”
― Ivo Andrić, The Bridge on the Drina

“for young people prefer even the most bitter and hopeless of lovers' quarrels to the boredom and loneliness of a life without the play and thoughts of love.”
― Ivo Andrić, The Bridge on the Drina

“This one is for you, nineteen-year-old Richard.”
― Daniel Ruczko, Pieces of a Broken Mind

“All I could hear in these stories about shitty people treating each other in shitty ways was an empty nihilism. Tear it down by all means, but then surely you had to build it back up? So many stories were Irvine Welsh rip-offs. He might've told us we could 'Choose Life'- and that meant consumerism, the other option being drugs. But beyond that binary there had to be something more- people wanting to heal, wanting to create something positive?”
― Guy Mankowski, You Complete the Masterpiece: A Novel

“Glossier is about much more than aesthetic appearance; it has become a way for people to feel connected to bigger beliefs, to feel like their daily choices are having an impact, and that they are putting the money were their mouth is.”
― Marisa Meltzer, Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier

“Young people should life their eyes to spires, to hilltops, and to God.”
― Martha Berry

“God is calling the overcomers to stand for the church…This is what God is calling for today; this is what interests Him today. God needs a group of people to attain His original goal.”
― Watchman Nee, The Glorious Church