Quotes About Juvenile Detention

#1. And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.

Walter Dean Myers

#2. I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
(Audrey Hepburn: Many-Sided Charmer, LIFE Magazine, December 7, 1953)

Audrey Hepburn

#3. Kids in North Lawndale need not be confused about their prospects: Cook County's Juvenile Temporary Detention Center sits directly adjacent to the neighborhood.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#4. I would not let an adult drive my robot. You don't have enough gaming experience. But I will let a kid with no license take control of my vehicle system.

Robert Ballard

#5. The totality of facts determines both what is the case, and also all that is not the case.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#6. I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as an artist.

Yukmouth

#7. (How opaque, the minds of absent men and women! And how elusive, motivation!

Eleanor Catton

#8. A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.

Eric Hoffer

#9. The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.

Bruce Springsteen

#10. Drowned in the lake, ravished by gypsies, struck by a passing motor car, she thought ritually, a sound principle being that nothing was ever as one imagined it, and this was an efficient means of excluding the worst.

Ian McEwan

#11. Mr. Lincoln, the merciful and just, who cries large tears over Mrs. Bixby's five boys, hasn't any tears to shed about the thousands of Yankees dying at Andersonville," said Rhett, his mouth twisting. "He doesn't care if they all die. The order is out. No exchanges.

Margaret Mitchell

#12. I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.

Adam Rapp

#13. Sex is like nose picking. It's fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it's disgusting watching someone else doing it.

Roald Dahl

#14. The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the
biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization.

Allen Ginsberg

#15. A secret, like a chore, always seems to lead to another, one even more troublesome than the first.

Bette Lord

#16. was a juvenile detention centre, called Liluah, housing

Saroo Brierley

#17. Sometimes the way comes later, when I'm not working or thinking about it at all. When stories don't work, you try to convince yourself that all of that time and energy wasn't wasted, that it will make you a better writer, if nothing else.

Mary J. Miller

#18. his bloody hands as he rode silently in the back of the transport van back toward the juvenile detention

Scott Pratt

#19. He was sentenced to one year in a small juvenile detention home in town. Most of the kids were in for drugs. Carmack was in for an Apple II.

David Kushner

#20. You certainly would not ask anyone else to do something so psychotic. And if you did I would be highly offended.

Tarryn Fisher

#21. I do all I can to let my students feel as normal as possible, as far from institutionalized. I see how easy it is to allow this conveyor belt of incarceration bring them from my facility to an adult detention, often for the rest of their lives.

Thomm Quackenbush

#22. She had always called me 'you.' 'Is that you?' on the telephone, 'Can you? Will you? Do you?' so that I imagined, like a fool, for a few minutes at a time, there was only one 'you' in the world and that was me.

Graham Greene