Quotes About Youth

At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.

I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.

As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.

When one is a child, one has little say in the matter: one's parents decide. Mine chose Cotchford, and they chose the various schools I was sent to as I grew up.

I chose cricket as my career when I was 15 or 16 when I scored a century for Maharashtra.

I was a Christian when I was young and didn't know any better.

I was a little chubby, rosy-cheeked kid.

When I was younger, I was chubby. It gave me a terrible sense of self-image, and I guess I carry that around with me still.

I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.

From the time I was 12 until I was 21, Chuck Berry was my favorite artist.

When I was little, like 7 to 15, there was nothing I wanted to do but go to church and go to school.

I grew up in church.

We have to start making sure that churches start to talk about... black queerness in a way that's affirming. Because a lot of young black men are in the church, and that's where they start to learn this self-hate behavior.

I am young enough to try my hands at all kinds of cinema.

I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film camera at 15.

Animals are good for teaching children about the circle of life.

Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.

With new fast bowlers on the international circuit few and far between, it's always good to see someone new coming through.

I just go out there and play. I don't know if it's being young and not getting calls, or some other circumstances. I'm just trying to make a play.

Rock 'n' roll was uniting black kids and white kids, and rock 'n' roll is not being given credit... for being just as important to the civil rights movement as the activists.

I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.

It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.

Invisible Boy was fun. Everybody else's character, they knew where they were at already as a superhero. But invisible boy's character, you kind of grow up with him within the movie.

My first influences were superhero artists.