Quotes About Youth

You want young people to vote, make Election Day a national holiday.

When I was a boy, I was 15-16, I had a job during the school holidays as an extra. That's how I started. My first time on set was as an extra. I did it for two years. It was amazing!

I used to spend all my school holidays cycling around, so all this training has made me feel like a kid again.

I got involved in 2003, 2004, with a company called Dance4Life out of Holland.

In Holland, I have got the buzz back playing as a centre-forward, which is where I perform best. Ajax always appealed to me from when I was young and they gave me a chance to play in the Champions League too.

I think we have very good facilities for the youth in Holland. We have very good youth coaches and I think that is some of the reasons that always Holland has very good football players.

When I was 14, I started playing in the bigger clubs in Holland and when I was 17, I started playing all of the festivals there.

I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.

Hollywood was never great for children.

Hollywood is not good when it comes to age.

Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!

The Holy Grail audience are young people and, at the end of the day, that's who gets courted.

I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.

I was a homebody growing up.

I was 85 lbs. at my 2000 homecoming dance. But I wanted my collarbones and hip bones to show more. I'd feel my hip bones to make sure they were out. If not, I had more weight to lose. I lost my period until I was 17. I loved that. It meant I wasn't healthy, and I didn't want to be healthy.

I was 21 and homeless - such a broken, lost woman.

Even when we were little, we were always helping, going to feed the homeless, community drives, that type of stuff.

For our way-too-large population of homeless children, we can provide tutoring services so they can be ready for college.

Sadly, youth homelessness is an issue throughout the country.

I like to help kids, work with kids in detention homes. Don't tell a kid what's right and wrong. He knows what's right and wrong. Find out what his attitude and his aptitude are; try to help him where he wants to go.

It always made me sad that there were kids who didn't have homes.

Many kids in foster homes have a lot of emotions that are hard to get out. It's important to let them know they can make a difference in the community.

Coming from where I came from, being a foster youth... like, living in all those different homes... I am glad I had those experiences because now, when I perform, I can come from a place of reality: I know how different people live.

When I look back, there was obviously the arch of my creativity and when I was young, I used to go to open homes with my mother and I used to imagine how I could make the space better and how people would live in it.