Top 688 Young People Quotes

‘Flash mobs’ are reported on extensively because they’re novel and can be used to stoke fears of young people and the Internet. The media, of course, have absolutely no clue what they’re reporting on.
Alex Pareene
Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won’t get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
Iain Duncan Smith
I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
Laura Wade
The young people I teach now know they are being sold d

The young people I teach now know they are being sold down the river before we even start studying the trends and numbers. That’s the toughest part of being a high school economics teacher… being a witness when our children realize that the greatest deficit of all is a deficit of leadership.
Kurt Bills
Charlie would be so proud of what these young people are accomplishing today and, in true Charlie fashion, would encourage them to walk to the very edge of their comfort zone and then take another step.
Lynn Schusterman
How can you contribute towards building the Indian society and the Indian nation? No better way than to upgrade the quality of young people in school, particularly the schools which are run by the state government in the villages.
Azim Premji
The Internet can give young people a fantastic platform to become financially independent and have global businesses without leaving Russia.
Dasha Zhukova
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.
Rebecca Harding Davis
Young people all over the world are very frustrated. They are very disillusioned. Many of them are turning their backs on religion. They are walking away from the faith of their parents, and most of this is because religion has failed them.
Myles Munroe
The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.
Annalee Newitz
It’s important to surround yourself with good people, interesting people, young people, young ideas. Go places, learn new stuff. Look at the world with wonder – don’t be tired about it.
Angela Bassett
I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don’t think it’s going to get any better.
John Denver
Young people are more intelligent and sophisticated.
Dianne Wiest
Hollywood looks to these young people now to say something to the world. I have nothing against that, I think a lot of people have things to say. But I think you need life experience.
Sasha Alexander
What has gone catastrophically wrong in England and the States is that for 30 years we’ve lost the ability to talk about the state in positive terms. We’ve raised a generation or two of young people who don’t think to ask, ‘What can the state do that is good?’
Tony Judt
I had heard about the nightcrawling world, and I’m very aware that there are tens of millions of young people around the world who are facing bleak employment prospects.
Dan Gilroy
Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa’s young people properly.
Ama Ata Aidoo
No, I don’t know how to get young people to start listening to jazz again. But I do know this: Any symphony orchestra that thinks it can appeal to under-30 listeners by suggesting that they ‘should’ like Schubert and Stravinsky has already lost the battle.
Terry Teachout
It’s about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.
Jane Fonda
We are so lucky Americans are impressive with what they’re willing to give. We get bashed too much. And, so many young people in this country give so much. They’re not all gang bangers.
Jami Gertz
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Francis Bacon
I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There’s nothing wrong with that.
S. Truett Cathy
One thing that was very clear to me is that the young people in a place like Annawadi aren’t tripping on caste the way their parents are. They know their parents have these old views.
Katherine Boo
The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.
Simon Cowell
Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it’s hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.
Boris Spassky
You can’t tell young people what to do. You can’t tell ’em because they’ll look at you and say, ‘Well, how can you tell me not to do that when you were there doing it yourself?’ Or supposedly were doing it yourself. I think you must let everyone live their life the way they have to.
Ronnie James Dio
I am personally interested in more than just business schools. However, life has been good to me, and it’s been good to me through a business career. I think the chance to help strengthen the foundation of young people going into business, as I did, just appeals to me.
Gerry Schwartz
I love spending time with young people. I love to hear about what they think. It keeps me young. And they need role models.
Lynn Schusterman
One of the reasons why people – particularly young people – love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.
Steven Seagal
The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not.
Emma Thompson
I’ve experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I am encouraged that the federal government is taking an active role in the Cascade Youth and Family Center.
Greg Walden
I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.
John Denver
‘Suffering should not make us bitter people,’ my mother once said, ‘it should make us better comforters.’ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.
Billy Graham
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.
Josie Totah
I like to write stories where young people have a stron

I like to write stories where young people have a strong feeling about something being fair or unfair, right or wrong, cruel or kind, and they act on the basis of that – often in the face of the prevailing limits of behaviour.
Morris Gleitzman
I have a garden, and I’m passionately interested in young people.
Mary Wesley
I feel really happy like with ‘Derry Girls,’ I feel happy to be part of something that young people are like, that is dysfunctional and you feel awkward in relationships and you try to find someone that makes you feel comfortable.
Jessica Barden
Young people are the key to this election.
Kinky Friedman
Sometimes you have to let young people develop.
Thomas Tuchel
Everyone has a crazy old lady in their family like ‘Mama.’ No one ever comes up to me and says ‘Mama’ is just like them, so no one is ever offended by her. Even young people like to laugh at her. I think she helps kids appreciate their own grandmothers more.
Vicki Lawrence
Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
John Burroughs
Too many young people graduate laden with debts that take years, if not decades, to pay off.
Robert Reich
Well, the fact that the news industry doesn’t have enough money to only send salaried staff to war zones means there is an enormous, wide-open opportunity for young people who want to be on staff and don’t know how to get there.
Sebastian Junger
Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck.
Marissa Mayer
But as for the future, I foresee a world which is more creative, more open, more loving, more ecologically friendly, more honest about its history and progress, and I think a lot of those contributions will be made by young people.
Amanda Gorman
Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.
Ariana Grande
Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn’t just the ’40s, either. In the ’30s and in the ’50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out.
John Knowles
I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people… a long time ago.
Nancy Lublin
When I see young people interested in music. I always look out for that passion in their eyes. You never know where that might lead.
Aaron Diehl
There’s just a lot of really young, entitled people. I don’t think a lot of these young people have to work very hard. They’re found on YouTube and, boom, thrown into the studio, so they think they can get anything they want.
Drake Bell
I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.
Tom Brokaw
Young people should ponder over problems that might confront them and be prepared to cope with them in a way that their parents, their leaders, and their Heavenly Father would have them cope, that they might keep themselves clean and pure.
Joseph B. Wirthlin