Youth Justice Quotes

#1. A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.

Anthony Horowitz

#2. There are some really good experiments with the youth offending service, joining up youth offending teams with the youth justice board, and good local authority and primary care trusts working together.

David Blunkett

#3. Let's roll for justice, let's roll for truth. Let's not let our children grow up fearful in their youth.

Neil Young

#4. A lot of musicians don't learn the business. You just have to be well-rounded in both areas. You have to understand publishing. You have to understand how you make money, what's in demand, what helps you make the most out of your talent.

Bradley Joseph

#5. Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom-the inundation of outside influences never stops. Whatever the lure-cars, easy money, cigarettes, drugs, booze, sex, crime-much that glitters along the shore has a thousand times the appeal of a parent's lecture.

Mary Ellen Snodgrass

#6. The pig was soon dissected and its blood filled the bucket in the bottom of which a patch of sky was reflected darkly. It had surrendered to the vortex of life and his breathing.

Michel Fardoulis-Lagrange

#7. All fruit grows through abiding, not striving.

Bill Johnson

#8. All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?

Prince

#9. Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

J.B. Priestley

#10. I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control.

Q'orianka Kilcher

#11. Bossuet has a sentence which is beyond the comprehension of an apostle who does not realize what must be the soul of his apostolate. It runs: "When God desires a work to be wholly from His hand, he reduces all to impotence and nothingness, and then He acts." Nothing wounds God so much as pride.

Jean-Baptiste Chautard

#12. Happy the youth who believes that his duty is to remake the world and bring it more in accord with virtue and justice, more in accord with his own heart. Woe to whoever commences his life without lunacy.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#13. It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.

James Mackintosh

#14. Custodial education does not have as its objective the education of youth but rather social control over them. It suppresses rather than stimulates their intellectual and physical energies.

John Conyers

#15. Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously?

Steve Stevaert

#16. There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.

Glen Cook

#17. We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems.

Ruben Hinojosa

#18. I hated school, didn't like the discipline.

Gary Gygax

#19. Am I to deny Mark justice because he is old and gross and ugly? Do youth and beauty deserve perverted justice? What have I fought for all these years, if not to make certain that justice is even-handed?

Bernard Cornwell

#20. If you happen to be out at night on the bike path without a light, ring your bell constantly. No bell? Then sing "Hotel Yorba" on a continuous loop, loud enough to warn the unseen.

Grant Petersen

#21. Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory; therefore I was insistently tormented with learning everything by heart.

Catherine The Great

#22. By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

Plato

#23. Writing is not for me. I completely lose my sense of humor when I write. I become extremely pathetic, very sensational. Images give me possibilities that I don't have with words.

Marjane Satrapi

#24. Savor the moments in life that make your heart glow. Chase after and find the moments that will take your breath away. In the end, it is only those milestones on life's journey that matter.

Michael Delaware