youth behavior Quotes

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent.

I wasn't a party boy.

I'm sick of all these young people just boogeying around, wasting their lives, you know.

I'll have pot in my home for guests - I'm polite! - but I don't sit around and smoke by myself, ever. Not like I did when I was young.

I don't know if I was a funny kid. I would say I was a loud and weird kid.

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.

The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

My kids wouldn't dream of buying a newspaper - and we are a newspaper household.

Begin early to teach, for children begin early to sin.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.

Kids nowadays, I remember when I was in school, they were just rude, even to the teachers and stuff.

I did experiment with marijuana when I was a youth.

I don't really think kids care much these days - they just tell you to f*** off.

I wasn't that kid where if you told me 'No,' I was just going to do it anyway.

A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.

Maybe Asians are switching from studying to sports.

I mean, let's look at it in the other way. If they claim that words have this mysterious power over people, well, 99 percent of on the songs on the radio deal with the topic of love and we use the term loosely. So, kids have heard love, love, love, love ... the minute they turn on the radio. Do you see any kids doing love? I see them doing crack ... but not love. So, it's bullshit!

My mum did encourage me, perhaps most of all by never discouraging me from anything I wanted to do. If you tell kids not to, they're going to do it in the end anyway. I'd finished all that staying-out-all-night-drinking bit when everybody else came to it. Probably why I don't like alcohol today. I had it all by the age of 10.

Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.

Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel!

We have recognized that the world is changing. How your children are behaving, how their friends are behaving. What they consume and what they watch.

Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money.

This generation... they have a different attitude. Instead of sitting and watching something, they want to be a part of it - they're very hedonistic and sensual.