Quotes About Youth

In my past 20 years of interaction with girls across the world I have found that girls live in fear and anxiety while growing up.

'Emergency Contact' is about the anxiousness that is inherent in meat space interactions.

It's been an interesting life. I feel like I'm 40 years old at the age of 16.

Growing up, I saw the world as an inspiring place full of interesting people.

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

When I was a kid, I was the one causing the problems, and my little sister was the intermediary. But I think in life, generally, I don't want drama. I'd so much rather do something goofy.

I've never been much of a craftsman, in an educated way. But I think just the experience of writing makes the avenues I follow a little more efficient in some ways. At the same time, when you're young, you're a little more fearless, and there's less of an internal critic.

The more 'A' side cricket that can be played, it will keep the fringe of international cricket interested.

I began to lead two lives... one being a kid and the other starting to speak internationally about the environment... and advocating for social and environmental justice.

Kids listen to everything on the Internet.

Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet.

I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!

I was six or seven and an interpreter.

Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.

I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more like a courtship.

I've wanted to interview Hillary Clinton since I was 15 years old.

I was walking home from school when I was about 17 with two friends, and they took a left into an electrical shop. While we were chatting away, they grabbed a couple of forms and I was handed one. My mum found it and made me fill it in. I got called for an interview, and that's how I ended up being an electrician for 11 years.

Helena Bonham Carter was 19 when we made 'A Room with a View'. She came for the interview in these extraordinary boots and a black dress, and sat with her feet out in front of her.

Growing up, my first interview when I was 14, I said, 'Yeah, I'm going to play in the NBA.' Everybody was like, 'Who is this kid? He is cocky.'

Sometimes I think that jealousy, like skiing, is only for those with enough youthful stamina and energy to endure it. As people get older, they finally give jealousy up, or at least they put it off for as long as possible until there's such incontrovertible evidence

We were hot, the sea was one long wave to be ridden in, our skins were dark, and time even stopped now and then and let things shimmer since time, too, is affected by beauty and will stop sometimes for a moment.

ONE SUMMER MORNING while I was still a virgin though my virginity was on its last legs, I woke up and didn't want to go to New Jersey.

It must have been marvelous when the century was young and things impressed themselves in such blatant vivid brilliance that an approaching fire under a starry sky could illuminate, even to a Crimean actress, this sense of "place" – that there was nothing to be wanted from material things, nothing to be saved.

I'm glad I wasn't seated next to Celia, because what is there to say to someone younger than you who marries for money, except "How do you like your money?