Quotes About Youth

In your 20s and 30s, everything is possible. But then, sooner than you think, men walk past you in the street and don't look twice at you unless you're wearing a fabulous outfit.

I'm a surfer. I grew up in Southern California and used to surf twice a day, every day.

I started daily training at the age of 14. When I was 16 years old, I was running twice a day.

When you are 14, 15, 16, you can train every day in France, and sometimes you can train twice a day.

I had to move away from home at 14 and live in a club house in Romford for three years, only seeing my mum and dad twice a week.

I always figured there would be a kid audience and an adult audience, and there is. That's true for 'Hunger Games' and 'Twilight' and 'Harry Potter.' And 'Maximum Ride,' for sure. In particular what happens is a lot of parents share the books with their kids, and the mom has read it, and the kids, and they talk about it.

First published in 1984 when I was nothing more than sticks of bone at seven, 'Dragons of Autumn Twilight' began what would be one of the icons of my grunge-stained disenchanted childhood.

It does not matter what film you're making. If you're young and there's romance in the movie, it's compared to 'Twilight'.

Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it.

If a child wants to read 'Twilight' over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged - the important thing is to get them reading in the first place.

The reality of the world we live in is that people sometimes aren't interested in many circumstances; no matter how much young radicals yell at them, that isn't what they want to do right now.

I was all limbs and I was very convinced that I must be uncoordinated, so I didn't want to try any sports. And the girls' basketball team was constantly like, "Please, please just come play."

Younger theologians will continue to pursue and understand truth rather than deconstructing it, as a lot of their elders seemed to want to do.

Who cares about 17-21 year olds? Jack Myers does, and you should, too, if you want a front row seat on where the future of business and civilization is going.

I believe artists are too focused on the younger crowd. Why would you want to focus on them? Let them do what they do. You continue to do what you do.

From 16 to 26, no one really knows what they want to do for the rest of their life at that age. Latin's not f - ing one of them.

It actually took me 20 years to want to write about my youth. I was definitely always a little intimidated about writing about that part of my life.

Recently, I went to a disco with friends, and all the young people were saying, 'Dudamel, we want to go to your concert, but it's impossible because it's sold out.' It's really amazing.

I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.

I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.

Men want girls. Most men want little girls. They want them in film. They want to look at them. That's all they want. An evolved man is not going to look that way.

Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.

Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.

Growing up, my room was covered in posters. I was like, "I want to make posters."