Quotes About Youth

I always like to spend time with the kids, especially with kids who need help. For them and for the parents, to see their smile is always nice.

If I can make a kid smile playing baseball, that's pretty awesome.

There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your lines with a lot of energy and a cute smile.

I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

By coincidence and not design, 'Everstar' is written and drawn by an all-female creative team, and it makes me smile to think that there may be young female readers out there, future writers and artists, who get to see that comics doesn't have to be a 'boys' club.'

I'm only 20; you've got your whole career ahead of you. I'm just focused on playing for West Ham and playing with a smile on my face and enjoying it.

I love kids - they're so carefree and always put a smile on my face.

For me, I really enjoy helping out the Youth Baseball Academy. That's something that any time you're helping out the game of baseball with at risk children, that puts a smile on my face.

If there's a photo of a roomful of kids I'm the one with the biggest smile or my hand over my face.

I love anything to do with kids, anything to better our youth and put a smile on anybody's face is really what I do it for.

I'm all about being a role model to kids. I enjoy doing it, and I like putting smiles on kids' faces.

When you can see kids smiling, that's one of the best things. That's why I did 'Narnia.'

The first record I was really into was the Drifters' 'When My Little Girl Is Smiling.'

After the season I always go back to my country and try to make the kids happy. That's the best feeling for me, when I see those smiling faces on the kids and you know how excited they are.

I played as a 17-year-old with Walter Smith, who must have been about 32. So I've known Walter for 21 years.

The American people know that every day 3,000 kids begin to smoke, 1,000 of them die an early death. They're not going to allow us to go forward this year and not have comprehensive bipartisan legislation. It's in everybody's best interest.

Anti-smoking education should focus on the young as well as adults, emphasizing that 'It's not cool to smoke, because there's nothing cool about cancer.'

With the arrogance of youth, I thought, 'I don't drink, don't smoke, I don't do drugs, so why would I get cancer?' The week I spent waiting for the result of the biopsy to see if it was malignant felt like the longest of my life.

I smoked some pot as a kid, but I just never did drugs.

At school, everyone smoked cigarettes. I was the rebel who didn't want to. I have never needed anything like that to have a good time, and that also means my experiences are always very real.

For a few months when I was about 17, I smoked a small cigar because I thought it looked cool and it would get me the girls. It didn't.

A young fella snuck out on to the field somehow, but when he was coming up to give me a hug, he got smoked by the guard. He was lucky the guy didn't break his ribs.

I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do.

Just as we ban smoking and drinking for under 16, because we want to shield young people from their harmful effects, we should do the same for smartphones.