Youth Exposure Quotes

At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.

I can be around kids if I need to be.

As kids, we have all handled shot guns. From there on, there is no transition. It stays in the toy box. The idea is to get the transition and bridge the gap between the toy box and the shooting range.

For a long time I heard rap without paying attention, but it is still a way of life, even when you're a kid.

In opposition to sex education: Let the kids today learn it where we did - in the gutter.

I got my first exposure to Islam when I was 13.

No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys.

I loved Batman, don't get me wrong, but that kind of mindless violence is not good for young children.

The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not.

The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.

By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an NHL playoff series.

I think it's also different when you're younger, too and your whole life is exposed. You know, it is probably exhausting and a little spiritually depleting, but you just find ways to fill up and do things For me it's simple things.

As we're bombarded with the imagery that we are and now, post 9-11, it's hard not to get hardened by the world and the amount of violence that's allowed to be shown to kids these days.

Most of the things that are supposed to be so objectionable in books are things that every teenager, in the United States, not only knows, but has talked about at length in school, or on the way home from school.

I think it's very important what young people see in pictures or on TV or in magazines. Drugs, violence, anorexia. All of the things that I absolutely do not reference in my photos.

The conscience of America seems to be paralyzed... We seem to be insensible to the things that are now taking place on motion picture screens and on the news stands that are constantly stimulating our young people.

Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.

I watched all kinds of dirty movies as a kid. My parents were very liberal about that, and I was still an uber-nerd who never drank or did drugs. I don't think it matters.

To me, the thing about anime is that it's so adult-oriented. I remember going to Suncoast growing up, and you see 'Akira' there with the little 'Not for Kids' sticker on it. That always made an impact on me.

I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.

I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure.

Our children are being fed a daily dosage of violence …. I know this stuff sells, but that doesn't make it right.

When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.

The baby sits in front of MTV watching violent fantasies, while Dad guzzles beer with his favorite sport only to find his heroes all coked up.