Juvenile Quotes

• Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

  Isaac Asimov

  Stars, Ignorance, Humanity

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• The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.

  B. F. Skinner

  Intelligent, Men, Personality

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• When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

  Arlen Specter

  Education, Believe, Students

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• Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.

  Dirk Kempthorne

  Children, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

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• The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Men, Mind, Action

  Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.145

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• It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile education, is to provide, against the age of five and twenty, a mind well regulated, active, and prepared to learn. Whatever will inspire habits of industry and observation, will sufficiently answer this purpose.

  William Godwin

  Children, Inspire, Mind

  William Godwin (1797). “The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays”, p.78

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• It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

  William Godwin

  Children, Importance, One Thing

  William Godwin (1797). “The Enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays”, p.78

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• I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it's juvenile, but that's me.

  Jimmy Carr

  Writing, Class, Rude

  "The boy behind the man". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2004.

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• Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Humorous, Parenting

  C. S. Lewis (1992). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

  George W. Bush

  Birthday, Humor, Gun

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

  Horace Walpole

  Hours, Miles, Found

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• 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

  Thinking, Justice, Mentor

  "Q’Orianka Kilcher,BBAACCSS1‘Firelight’ Star, On Playing A Latina Juvenile Delinquent". Interview with Lee Hernandez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2012.

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• I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God

  Smokey Robinson

  Faith, Talking, Years

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• How can you feel like an actual member of society casting a vote for a president when in a professional interview you said that farts make you laugh? And you're a professional in comedy? But then, have you ever seen a video of a small dog that farts? Welp. I don't need to explain that anymore. If you can't see the humor in that, good luck being a CEO somewhere where I'm not going to understand you. It's a harmless thing to laugh at. It's humor that's not at the expense of someone else. And it's silly. It's juvenile.

  Kyle Kinane

  Dog, Silly, Good Luck

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Working with drug addicts, alcoholics, and so-called juvenile delinquents in New York City convinced me that instead of working with individuals, more effective methods would deal with the societal conditions that create dysfunctional behaviors in the first place.

  Jacque Fresco

  New York, Cities, Drug

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• Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries.

  Nathan Deal

  Cells, Blood, Adults

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• You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.

  Mark Twain

  Years, Two, Alive

  Mark Twain (2011). “Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians: And Other Unfinished Stories”, p.285, Univ of California Press

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• I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile delinquents, a lot of whom consider it a badge of honor to be sent to juvenile detention. And it might not be such a cool thing in the 'hood to be flogged publicly.

  Ann Coulter

  Honor, Criminals, Might

  "The Conservative Pin-Up Girl". www.washingtonpost.com. April 19, 2005.

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

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Numbers, Justice, This Generation

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• It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the market place and on the battlefield men who set their hearts on toys have often displayed unequal initiative and drive. And one must be ignorant of the creative process to look for a close correspondence between motive and achievement in the world of thought and imagination.

  Eric Hoffer

  Heart, Men, Imagination

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• When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.

  Mark Hamill

  Book, Thinking, America

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• California's death penalty is ... an incredibly costly penalty, and the money would be better spent keeping kids in school, keeping teachers and counselors in their schools and giving the juvenile justice system the resources it needs.

  Gil Garcetti

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Leadership, Iran, Korea

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• The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

  Daniel Dennett

  Home, Rocks, Sea

  Consciousness Explained ch. 7 (1991)

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• When a juvenile offender commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Understanding, Humanity, Liberty

  Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551, March 1, 2005.

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