Quotes About Youth

Kids need activities and role models to stay out of trouble.

Living in a small country town, there wasn't a whole lot to do so you find your own fun. I was always getting myself in trouble.

I grew up in a little town called Uckfield, and there's not much to do - so we used to fight a lot. I was never in serious trouble, but we used to have the local bobby round the house saying, 'Rory's been up to this again.'

I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble.

I had little problems during high school. It seemed like I was always getting into trouble in summer, going in and out of juvenile hall.

I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tending to be in trouble.

When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done it before.

Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.

I'm not gonna lie. I used to be in AOL chat rooms a lot causing trouble back when you had dial-up modems.

I don't think I gave my mom too much trouble as a teenager.

We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.

I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible.

I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.

It's been interesting how kids have had hardly any problems watching it, but adults have more trouble. This happened way back even with Jabberwocky and Time Bandits.

When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.

If I had been living through the '80s, I probably would've gotten into a lot more trouble than my parents.

All teens are in trouble in one form or another.

I probably lived more of a rock-star life when I was 15. I got in trouble a fair amount. I cared more about hanging out and skipping school than studying.

You know, I had no trouble with the girls.

As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in reference to the inhumanity of people. There were questions that I did not know how to ask but could, in my young, unsophisticated way, articulate a series of answers.

Man, I was a troubled kid. I was going to get kicked out of a Christian school and got sent to military school for a year and a half, and I didn't really have much direction until I got the opportunity to drive race cars.

As a kid I remember being frightened all of the time, and kind of sad. I was certainly troubled. But a lot of people were, y'know? I don't really know how to measure my trouble against somebody else's.

We're allowing every Eric Harris, every troubled kid out there, to become the next Tim McVeigh.

I seem to play a lot of troubled kids.