Quotes About Youth

I believe that investment in sports is investment in youth. And that, in turn, is investment in the future.

When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.

Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.

At the end of the day, when you're young you think you're invincible.

When you're young and arrogant and cocky and feel you're invincible, you say a lot of mean things to a lot of people because you think you're better, you don't need to deal with people.

I believed I was invincible.

I was quite fearless as a kid. But I've had to realize I'm not invincible. That's what breaking your back does. It makes you grow up and reassess life.

I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.

Women become invisible as they age; men become impotent.

Growing up, I felt a little bit invisible.

I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.

I get invited to a lot of college campuses, and administrators think it's going to be a lecture on 'trans-ness' or whatever. But when young people get there, their questions are about just life.

When I was young, the best moment came when I was 10 and I got invited to the academy. I remember getting all this Ajax training gear and suddenly I was able to call myself an Ajax player.

It's never too early to involve your kids in giving back. And the more hands-on the experiences are, the better.

We have to let young people know that we care about them and their future. I want to involve them to a level where they become the leaders and the advocates because, right now, a lot of these young people don't believe they have an advocate.

The era we live in we see child are more advanced then us. And that is why they need knowledge even on sex before they involve themselves in crime because of curiosity to know about sex.

Every time I play 'Part of Your World,' a whole part of my life comes back to me. It's just inescapable - it was an innocent time, and a sense of discovery that we were all involved with.

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

I had an iPhone for a while, I gave that to my grandson. Kids are really caught up in that.

I just downloaded '1984' for my iPod, but I've read that before. It just hearkens back to the 'romance' of my high-school days. I really liked the space I was in when I was reading it.

I remember being very free in Ireland.

But I believe Ireland is getting more European, and the young are looking toward Europe for jobs - just as there are a lot of Europeans coming to Dublin.

I hated school in Ireland.

I moved to London when I was 18 to develop my acting career, but I still love going home to Ireland to recharge my batteries.