Bella Ramsey Quotes

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

I think it would be great if there were no age limit.

There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.

I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice.

Old people should be heard but not seen. Young people should be seen, not heard.

A lot of kids do look up to us. But there are just as many elderly people to put us down.

If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we'd have a better world.

The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did.

The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.

The work of the youth is a blanket for the old.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves.

You could almost say I'm someone who doesn't practice age.

I'm anti-ageism in the arts.

I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.

I'm 28 years old. In my country, that's considered very young. It's almost like the youth don't matter to the up-and-ups.

Just because people are older, they don't have the right to tell you what's right and wrong.

You can see designers and fashion people bringing in older girls to do their shows - I'm not even afraid to say 'older.'

It is important for the film industry to rise above ageism.

We're all people", he said simply. "It doesn't matter if you're two, thirty-two, or ninety-two. Everyone wants to be treated with respect. Everyone wants to feel like they matter in this world.

Just because you’ve only been alive for fifteen years doesn’t mean you’re less anything except old. That’s all it means. It doesn’t mean you’re less experienced. It doesn’t mean you’re less intelligent. It doesn’t mean you’re less sensitive. It doesn’t mean you take things less seriously. It’s like, these are younger human beings, meaning don’t, because they’re only ten, start thinking that they don’t know what you’re talking about -because they do. Don’t leave people out in the cold, and don’t talk down to people -don’t. It never works out.

As you get older - for example, in our band we have members of our orchestra, like Carlos Enriquez and Ali Jackson and Walter Blanning. I taught them when they were in high school, and now they teach me.I'll regularly call Ali and say, "Man, can you break this rhythm down for me?" Or Carlos was actually our music director in Cuba, and he's been instrumental in a lot of my education, and I started to develop a saying with them, because they tease me all the time - you get older, you have that familiar relationship - I say, "You have to follow your young leadership, too."

I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.