Quotes About Youth

It sucked to be old enough to want to know what was going on, but so young you were always dismissed.

When you're a little kid, you want the ball. You don't want to play defense. When you get the ball, basically you can do whatever you want.

I had an all right high school, even though I hated school. I wasn't massively popular, but I was okay. But I wouldn't want to do it again.

Getting rewarded for being pregnant when you're a teenager? Are you serious? I mean, that makes me want to kill somebody.

I tried Botox, but I don't want to be hooked on that stuff.

I am just enjoying my youth but I want to settle down eventually.

My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I knew that I was an unformed actor, and I didn't want to develop bad habits.

Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.

No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love.

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

If there's ever a kid out there that can't afford to buy the music, I still want them to hear it, and hopefully they'll go to the show, or buy a T-shirt from the band. That's the idea.

I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.

Now it seems like people want to do damage to young celebrities. They want to find them doing bad things. They encourage them.

NCS - National Citizen Service is a fantastic programme. I want it to be available for every young person in the country.

Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.

When I was younger and bands were formed that way, out of friendships rather than anything else. It wasn't like we put up want ads.

College is a magic time. Yes, youre young and fickle, but you want to be part of this college experience... Then you graduate from that. You have your first job, moving to a new city.

Yeah. When you want what's real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock beside a babbling brook on the corner of Sixth and Pine in downtown Seattle.

I feel really lucky to have found musical success before I'm 30, to be doing absolutely what I want to do. I would be quite happy if I died tomorrow.

To be honest, when you're young and you watch The Deer Hunter for the first time, that's when you're like, "That's what I want to do."

One Christmas, I just begged my parents like "I want to try to surf on a real board instead of these boogie boards and rafts" and they got me one.

I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.

I've never dated anybody older, actually. There are so many things I'm curious about, and I'd love to be able to say, "Teach me." I want to learn from the people around me.

You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow.