Taylor Momsen Quotes

Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

You know, the age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19? I'm up here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something, or I wouldn't have been nominated for Best New Artist. Sometimes it's like, "You're right. My mother wrote these songs."

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.

Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.

Don't treat me like a little girl.

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.

Kids don't make up 100 percent of our population, but they do make up 100 percent of our future.

I had so many adults around me reminding me that I was a kid. I also had a lot of adults saying things to me like, "When I was your age..." and sort of idealizing it. I didn't like that they idealized it.

I wouldn't mind doing more in the kid's world because I think that might be just where I can be most useful to society, to the planet, if I can speak to children.

Youth doesn't take advice.

I think I always wanted to have adventures in my life. I was always kind of a rambunctious kid.

The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids.

Kids are always the only future the human race has.

Miracles are happening every day. I do think that's true. If you can take the time to look. It took me a while to learn that, though some children know it instinctively and they do have wonder when they are kids. But the trouble is, as we grow older, we lose it.

Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth.

Stay a child while you can be a child.

Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.

I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child ... No slave was ever so much the property of his master as the child is of his parent ... Never were the rights of man ever so disregarded as in the case of the child.

I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to be distrusted, to be excluded forever from the magical community of the short and beardless.

No. Because it's so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?" "And a half," he says.

Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.