Quotes About Youth

How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!

I'm a child of the Sixties.

It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

I never went overseas until I left school and joined West Ham United Football Club at the beginning of the Sixties.

I think I was probably a 60-year-old man in waiting for most of my life. Even as a child I had something of the man in my sixties about me.

I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size.

When I was a little kid, me and all my family lived in a house the size of my daughter's room.

I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.

I miss America because it's where I grew up. I miss the size of the roads, the size of cars, the malls, the choices of radio.

When I was 11, I burned a field down by mistake. It was an empty field, probably about 10 acres in size. Me and my friend were lighting firecrackers, and we ended up burning down the entire field. We got found out, and I think I was grounded for about three months.

When I met T-Boz and Left Eye, they were buying jeans that were a size 38. Three little cute girls dressed like boys was cool back then. Our style was cartoonish but fly at the same time.

The things that people won't totally accept come in all shapes and sizes and forms, and I can relate to that in my own youth.

When I was younger, my mom worked at a roller rink, so I'd go all the time. I learned to skate pretty well. I won the limbo all the time.

I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebellious/underground edge to it because it is based on individuality.

When I know I'm not doing any auditions, I go to the skate park on my scooter or my bike.

In Ohio, I built the world's first skate plaza.

I love going to football matches, the skate park, and music festivals.

I grew up watching PRod and Chris Cole. To be able to skate with them in competition is an honor.

My parents bought a motorhome and would take us to skate competitions throughout California when I was only seven or eight years old.

I've always had a fascination with skate culture.

I now get to have the life I wanted when I was 18 years old. Now, I'm like, 'I can buy any skateboard I want.'

I'll skateboard now and then from time to time.

I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.

I was a skateboarder when I was little; I still skateboard. I teach my kids how to skate.