Quotes About Youth

Baseball wasn't necessarily my first sport in terms of liking it. I'd never played baseball or softball growing up.

When I was, like, 16, I had, like, my first, like, bit of software and stuff. So then I started, like, making music and all that.

A geek is a guy who has everything going for him but he's just too young. He's got the software but he doesn't have the hardware yet.

United Bank Card, I picked that name in 1999 because it sounded like an established financial institution, and I was 16 years old in my parents' basement, so I needed a name like that. The moment we started building our own hardware and software and had our point-of-sale capabilities by 2008, that was the last message we wanted to send.

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.

It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.

At the age of 12, I got free pieces of software in a box of cereal which allowed me to make music, like really early demos, and then I just never looked back.

My generation grew up on 'The Daily Show.' Jon Stewart gave me solace. He was the only person who I felt defended Muslims when crazy things were happening; the only place you could find a nuanced take on Iraq was Jon Stewart's show.

As someone who runs a solar financing company and founded the world's largest youth clean energy organization, I know solar energy is a very good investment.

At Brondby, we had Daniel Agger, who came up from the youth. He had two years in the team, and then we sold him to Liverpool for nearly £7 million, which is a lot of money in Denmark. As a manager, that gives you even greater satisfaction that winning something as a player.

Children should be allowed to be children and not be sold.

When I was 8 years old, I sold garden seeds.

When I was very young, I sold the rights to my work... through 2000.

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

I've had business sense since I was very young. I sold chicken eggs when I was six.

I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.

I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs. Today, record companies are failing because they are putting their accent just on the young, and I think that's rather silly.

I remember what it felt like when I was young, and I looked up to someone, and they would pay me just an ounce of attention. And some of the bands I listened to when I was young probably never even sold any albums, but it didn't matter to me. If I'd go up and say, 'Great show,' it would be amazing that they even would acknowledge me.

I sold my first story when I was 21 in 1973.

I first sold a cartoon for five dollars. I was in the fifth grade.

When I was young and foolish, and I had no money, I bought myself the carcass of a Jaguar E-Type. It was a rust bucket. I spent all my university savings trying to fix the car. I never did, and I finally sold it to recover at least part of my investment.

I was very young at Manchester United, and I feel that I was just starting to find my feet when I was sold and Rooney was brought in.

At age 15, I sold a television series to NBC.

I was a slave. I was sold in China in 2007 as a child at 13 years old.