Top 1200 Young Adults Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.

Evolution has led to some populations of people being able to digest milk without much trouble when they're adults as well.

The young give us hope because young people are certain their best days still lie ahead - which explains why they're absolutely convinced they can change the world for the better.

Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.

I love spending time with young people. I love to hear about what they think. It keeps me young. And they need role models.

Kids are different from adults. They are not as developed as far as brain science, controlling impulses, and maturity, and fall prey to all kinds of pressures.

In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.

Kids keep getting wiser younger, which is dangerous, and adults need to stop taking themselves too seriously.

Although I now spend most of my time writing novels for teenagers and adults, 'readaloudability' is still a criterion I try to adhere to.

Not only Southern children - but adults as well - use the preface ma'am or sir when speaking to someone older or in authority.

With few exceptions, the publishing industry has come to a consensus: if a book has a young protagonist, and if its worldview is primarily interested in the questions that crop up when coming of age, then it's a young adult novel.

The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children.

I was forced to grow up quicker than most. I was forced to be a young man at a young age.

I'm really excited about the revolution that is young people actually playing young people on Broadway.

So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens, asking these peculiar questions of everybody - important people, young men, slaves - questions that had to do with ultimately what's the life that's worth living. And Plato was one of the young men who hung around him, a very aristocratic young man, came from a very old, important family.

From dwarf tossing to drug taking: The legislator has no place in voluntary exchanges between consenting adults, as dodgy and as dangerous as these might be.

Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults

As a young footballer I used to look up to a number of stars for inspiration and I understand what Bhaichung must have done for all young Indians aspiring to be footballer.

I've been a young man. Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.

God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

I wanted to be a boy when I was young because boys got to do all the good stuff. So I became very aggressive and very competitive at a young age.

I didn't have the safety net that a lot of young actresses have. A lot of young girls have their families around to support them and help choose wisely.

When you're young, you don't especially think of yourself as being young. You're just alive and everything's interesting and you don't think of things in terms of age because you're not conscious of it.

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.

We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.

Whether they be young in spirit, or young in age, the members of the Democratic Party must never lose that youthful zest for new ideas and for a better world, which has made us great.

It's a lot for young players to be expected to deal with all the media, and... there is a lot of pressure to be perfect, but at 19, 20, 21, 22, you're still young and learning.

Most x-rated films are advertised as "adult entertaintment,"for "mature adults," when in reality they are juvenile entertainment for immature and insecure people.

When my mom turned 91, I wanted to use the time that we have left in our lives to get to know each other as adults.

Children are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish they could be.

My parents called me their wise little baby. I was mature when I was 4 or 5. My brother and sister were older, so I was raised by four adults.

I don't have the songwriter's obligatory sob story. My sister and I both had a very happy, normal childhood and we've turned into sensible adults.

The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush.

With teenagers, the emotions are higher and things are more dramatic. That doesn't mean adults don't also act like children in their own way.

Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.

A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

I want women, especially young women, to create a world where your success is not based on being young.

I feel like the eight most at-risk years for young men or young women are the four they're in high school and the four they should be in college.

When you're really young, you're young for life.

If you find something that you're excited about and you're interested in, my advice to young women and young men would be do what you're really interested in and what drives and motivates you.

All that young people have to look up to are older role models, and I think it's important to have people like myself show that it's OK to be who you are when you're young.

Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.

The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.

It's really fun to write something for kids. You can make it a little bit more extreme and crazy than you would for adults.

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore

I wanted to start creating opportunities for actors out there that weren't so cut-and-dried... My ultimate goal with Outlier is to give these young creatives and young creative hustlers the opportunity to leave their fingerprint on the world.

A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.

I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions.

If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.

As a mentor and an advocate, I've seen no end to the ways that childless people can contribute to the lives and well-being of kids - and adults, for that matter.

I have a few memories of being young here in the United States, but almost no recollections of being young in Vietnam.

Young people deserve stable employment opportunities and not mountains of debt. When young people can access the middle class, America is strengthened.

Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any other members of the armed forced, or civilians, who enjoy...being entertained by ladies who...entertain.

Veal is a very young beef and, like a very young girlfriend, it's cute but boring and expensive.

If ever there was a holiday that deserves to be commercialized, it's Halloween. We haven't taken it away from kids. We've just expanded it so that the kid in adults can enjoy it, too.

When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.