Quotes About Youth

When you have little girls, you're the coolest person in the world. I know at some point that's going to end; in their adolescence I'll become the opposite of that, especially if I'm parked outside a high school party.

I wish I could've been friends with Charlie Parker and played with him. That's my period. I feel real close to the '40s - and actually, I was born in '37, so I was a kid singing on the radio in the '40s. But I always dreamed of going to big cities.

First time we played together was when I was in seventh grade, he was in eighth. There was a lot of buzz in the city about Jabari Parker, rightfully so. He's obviously a major player. I was just blessed to have him one year ahead of me, so everything I did, he already finished. I've been really blessed to have him by my side.

I couldn't wait to get on the ice. I couldn't wait to get to practice. As a kid, I couldn't wait to shoot pucks or play in parking lots, or play on the river or play on the bay.

Young, handsome men never flirt with me. I get heat from old dudes that run the parking garages.

I love kids that come to shows, little kids coming up to you with braces; like, some kid came up to me in a parking lot outside a show in Santa Cruz - he was about 14 or 15 - and he said, 'Y'know, I love 'The Basketball Diaries,' but I hope your next book of poetry isn't gonna be as academic as 'Living at the Movies' was.'

Growing up in Harlem, I was always in the parks playing ball.

I started doing amateur theatre and played Rosa Parks at the age of 12 or 13. At 16, I decided it was what I wanted to do.

Growing up, I was a parks and recs kid.

As far as what part of myself I brought to Five, I've always considered myself not really my age.

I happened to be spotted by a modeling agent who offered me a part-time job at 16. Everything happened very quickly after that - advertising campaigns, fashion shows, editorial shoots.

I didn't see my mum Julia for a few years - she was very young when she married my dad and had me, and when they parted I lived with my dad and my other 'mum,' his wife Diane.

I was a part of my school choir and used to participate in several singing competitions back then.

When I became more aware and educated on the state of youth sports and the inability for so many who want to participate, I knew I wanted to be involved.

I don't have a problem participating with the youth because the youth are our future.

When we treat music as an industrial commodity, and young people as merely consumers, we overlook the joy of participating in music... of learning to play an instrument, of joining a band or an orchestra, and playing gigs.

During high school, I wanted to work in architecture or engineering for no particular reason.

Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.

When I was a kid, I wanted to make movies. In particular, I loved animation and would love to have been an animator.

I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.

Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too.

I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad.

I wasn't some weird loner in school, but I definitely wasn't invited to any of the cool parties.

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.