Quotes About Youth

There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.

I was never much of a kid person. I mean, I thought they were cute to look at, but I didn't want them in my house.

If you're successful at a young age, no matter the profession, there has to come a time when you reevaluate everything, what it means to you. 'Is this what I want to do for the rest of my life?'

Who wants to be married to a grandfather?

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don't want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren't. There are pranks, IMs.

The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you.

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.

I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.

Youth is so exciting. It'll take over. I don't want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the end.

My brother never got an opportunity to throw a pitch, and I didn't want the same thing to happen to another young kid.

The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract.

I used to love the Beatles and the Stones and I'd always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older.

If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.

It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.

Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.

I was uncomfortable with smoking too much because a lot of young kids watch and I didn't want to make that cool.

I think I did a lot of really stupid stuff really quickly in my twenties and that sort of led me to want to sort of just relax a little bit. Relax a lot.

If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me.

Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.

As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen.

I'm going to be real as hell and show you who I am, because I want the kids to see who I really am and the basketball players to see who I really am, and that's all that matters to me.

That's my goal-more public courses in Mexico. I want to make sure little kids in Mexico can play golf.