Quotes About Youth

Kids can still call me Shaq, but adults should call me Dr. O'Neal.

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.

I want kids to believe that I was just like they were, and to believe that they, too, can aspire to great things.

You know us crazy kids. We'll do anything crazy to our hair.

A lot of kids tell me that 'Jessie' is their favorite show, and they would have been so sad if it didn't live on in 'Bunk'd.'

Cartoons make kids happy, and that's a great feeling.

Each of us knows a few or several young people whose lives have been devastated by cancer. I don't mean to be nihilistic about it, but it is very much an active killer of people now.

When I was young, I thought Kim il-Sung or Kim Jong-il is hero.

I don't have any children, so I've decided to claim all the future freedom-fighters and hell-raisers as my kin.

I've known my wife since we were 13 years old in eighth grade, and we kinda dated each other's best friends. The four of us always hung out, but I really wanted her. We dated around 17, but I was no way mature enough for her.

Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my roadie; he drove me from gig to gig. But I got my own gigs. I was this 12-year-old kid, shuffling business cards, calling people, telling them I wanted to play.

I've got two young sons who, when I ask them and their friends how they feel about gay marriage, kinda give me one of those looks like, 'Gosh, Mom, why are you even asking that question?'

I kinda gave my childhood to hip-hop, literally. I didn't go to parties in high school. All I did - well, I was DJing parties in high school.

I was 15 years old in 1972, and yeah, when the 1970s broke, I was out there. Everything was kinda swirling around me - the music, women, cars, the culture.

I should have been kinder when I was younger.

I was a kindergarten dropout.

My friends and I started making films when I was still in kindergarten.

When I was in kindergarten, I entered a competition and read 52 books in a week.

You know when I was a kid, I hated every day I was in school, from the kindergarten right through to my last day of high school.

People of power have to show empathy and kindness to the young.

J.J. Watt is larger than life and Houston's newest sports hero, in every sense of the word. He is a guy who spends NFL Fridays at high school football games and actively seeks out those in need of his kindness.

My first show was 'The King and I' when I was five.

I listened to a lot of King Crimson back in the day.

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.