#youngsters

Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#development #help #hinder #parents #really

Obviously I was disappointed when it fell into disuse, because it was my own track named after me, but I am sure all those youngsters we lost will be coming back, and I certainly intend to be down here as much as I can, coaching and advising. ↗

— Linford Christie

#after #am #back #because #certainly

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#am #amazed #among #capability #college

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements. ↗

— Elizabeth II

#disagreements #eccentricities #families #family #impetuous

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#bathtub #dog #dump #endowed #extraordinary

And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping. ↗

— Alberto Juantorena

#alcohol #bed #being #doping #drink

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors. ↗

— Barry McCaffrey

#alcohol #american #behaviors #day #end

I did have fun, for example, in The Black Hole which was very popular among youngsters. ↗

— Maximilian Schell

#black #black hole #did #example #for example

You give them an environment where they feel they can grow. But also make bloody sure you challenge them. You make sure they realise learning is hard. Because if you don’t, if you only make it a safe haven, if it’s all clap-happy, and ‘everything the kids do is great’, then what are you creating? Emotional toffees, who’ve actually learnt nothing, but who then have to go back and face the real world … Find that balance, it stretches you, it stretches you as far as you’ll go. ↗

— David Hare

#youngsters #education

Cat's friends seemed like very sweet girls," Dad says. "They were the bomb," I say fervently, and he looks back at me with raised eyebrows. "'The bomb' is a good thing? Like 'sick'? "Duh," I reply, and Dad lets out a sigh. "Thirteen-year-olds should come with subtitles," he says, turning onto our street. ↗

— Maya Gold

#language #oldies #sick #subtitles #youngsters