Quotes About Youth

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.

It is a great thing about having young children, is that they don't really care whether you're the chief justice or whatever, and they do make sure that you have a good perspective on life and what's important.

I write from the perspective of an early 20s kid who is trying to grasp an idea of what the hell is going on.

I feel it's important for the geeks to have a voice. 'Dope' is going to give a lot of people a new perspective.

I got into Shakespeare and all of that stuff in high school and then got out of it because it got too complicated. But all of those things just helped me to put words together. It gave me a different perspective.

Harvard freshmen are smart, interested, and excited, and it's fun hearing their different perspectives and stuff that they will share.

When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.

I would love to bring the children from my foundation Sinfonia por el Peru to play with some of the best musicians in the world.

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

Growing up, I had an insane crush on Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys.

I was 17 when Peter Jackson asked me to be in 'Heavenly Creatures.'

All children, except two, grow up: Peter Pan and Donald Trump Jr.

I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup.

When I was a kid, I saw 'Peter Pan,' and I loved Captain Hook and the Lost Boys because they were the 'bad boys.'

It's the Peter Pan in me, I don't think I'll ever grow up.

I went from being a kid-kid, listen to everything from The Beatles through Kiss, Peter Frampton, Jethro Tull classic rock, classic stuff into immediately, it seemed like, Iron Maiden and stuff like that. The first Iron Maiden record and then, obviously, the first Metallica record.

As a kid, I read 'Peter Pan,' and I really wanted to be him.

When I was about six or seven, I did this character reenactment performance where I read a monologue from 'Peter Pan.' I got into a complete Peter Pan outfit and did a little paragraph from the script - and I ended up winning an award for it.

'Peter Pan' is tried and true - it's a story that everybody knows.

Growing up, David Seaman was a massive role model for me. Peter Schmeichel and him were the ones I looked up to.

At 14 I was the fastest runner in Denmark. I was nearly a professional goalkeeper. I could have been the rival of Peter Schmeichel.

People forget I'm that old. They still think it's 1988, when I was 26. They think I'm Peter Pan!

I was awkward-looking with huge brown eyes, dark brown, pencil-straight hair styled into an old-school Romanian bowl haircut from the 1980s. And I was very, very small. I was always the tiniest kid on my street and in my classes at school... The gym was the one place I didn't have to worry about feeling awkward for being so petite.

You'll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn't bother me.