Quotes About Youth

There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.

We tend to want to stay here in Louisiana as Louisiana people. We've just got to be mindful that there are other things out there, and we really need to open our kids' minds to get them to go to college. Get them to get away. Then come back and help the next ones behind us.

Little boys have amazing minds.

I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so early. And maybe they can achieve it, too, just to get that in their minds.

The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

I was about 18 when I started making music, making beats. My mindset was totally different.

When I was growing up, we would play a 10-over or 15-over game, and the asking-rate would always be high, and I would end up scoring 30 or 40 runs in 15 balls, so I built that mindset right from the beginning and still continue to bat in the same manner.

You know, I think the idea of activism, more so a revolutionary mindset, is something that has been with me for most of my life, especially since I was about 16 years old.

I get out in the 'hoods. I want to go to the worst, the grimiest places. That's where I want to be. Those are usually the kids or the communities that kind of get left behind or forgotten about. I feel like I was in that situation at one point. That's where my mindset is and that's what I stand for.

100 percent, I'm a natural athlete. From when I was younger, I played so many different sports and I've got a competitive mindset.

You do your job, you come home, and then like try and drown out the rest. I think it's a really important mindset to have, especially if stuff starts quickly and you're young. Because the rest of it is scary.

When the other girls had given up their Barbies, I was still playing with mine in secret.

The first CD I bought was Brandy and Monica's 'The Boy Is Mine.'

When we were 17, I got my first car, a Mini Metro.

We all have experiences and memories from miniature golf. I had my first kiss at hole nine at Golfland.

It is essential that the young people of this country learn to respect the right of every man and woman to seek his or her happiness with minimal interference from the government.

I believe that it is girls' human rights to go to school to be educated, minimum, until they are 18.

When I was young, I was dedicated to become a minister - my brothers and I were formally brought in front of the congregation in a dedication ceremony, where we were dedicated to the future service of God.

When I was a little kid going to Methodist church, I actually envisioned one day that I would become a minister but I never pursed that.

But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.

My heart's toward youth ministry, but I don't know. I never would have thought I would have written a book. And God kind of directed that. So we'll see what the next is.

I've worked with kids in a youth ministry in California.

I hadn't gone to high school. I left Minnesota, I left home, I was on my own. I was seventeen.

I went to high school in Minnesota.