Quotes About Youth

When you're young, you want to live fast, but you definitely don't want to die young. At the same time, you want to do things in slow, progressive manner that will benefit you in the future. Don't jump into things.

The thing is: I was quite slow when I was younger. I might have been smart - I don't know - but I was slow talking to people. And as you can see, I don't talk very loud.

When I was younger, I thought once I hit 25, I'd slow down. Nope!

The worst things that ever happened to me were before I was 20. It has been slow, hard-won improvement since then.

Let me do five of those, and then some slower ones for those kids that can't understand what I'm sayin.

As a kid, I mostly played as a No 10. When I was really young, I played as a striker. But I grew a lot when I was older, and when I was 15, 16, I had a big growth, and so I changed a little bit and became slower.

My joints hurt. I'm slower. But I remember what it was like to run and play with the boys. I want to be one of the boys.

My competitors won't be thinking, 'Oh, she's only 18, let's go a little slower for her.'

When I was younger, I always thought, 'I can do anything' but I felt myself turning slower, picking up hamstring injuries. It went from bad to worse.

I didn't look at age as being a reason to stop running or become slower.

I was a child who went about in a world of colors... My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.

Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.

What can you know about life at 14? I have learned a lot since, but you learn slowly. You get hit by many things and try to make sense of it.

There's slowly been a kind of shift in how we think about childhood. It's like childhood almost extends to 20 or 22 even after the end of college. When I was growing up, there was this expectation that you were on your own now.

Classical dance forms and music are slowly going away. It is very important to impart these to children.

My best friend from up the street, another really tough kid, we'd box every day after school, starting around 6th or 7th grade. We would go in the backyard, and we would slug out. We'd box until we got tired or until somebody quit. Other kids would come over, and they would want to box. Most of the time they didn't fare too well.

When I was 16, I made some little 35mm documentaries about the poor in London. I went round Notting Hill, which was a real slum in the 1950s, shooting film.

I grew up in a slum neighborhood - rows of tenements, with stoops, and kids all over the street. It was a real neighborhood - we played kick-the-can and ring-a-levio.

The older you get, the few slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?

When I was young, I was the kid who would call my dad from a slumber party to beg him to come pick me up.

'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.

I'm incredibly passionate about business, about small businesses, and about kids being given the right skills so they are successful.

Ajax has always been about homegrown players developed in a small country.

When I was 17, I had a small part in the movie 'Election,' which shot in Omaha, Nebraska. I was really naive at the time; I really didn't know what a big deal it was.