Quotes About Youth

I've done work in every area of social justice you can think of, but I've been highly focused on young people and then specifically black and brown girls.

My experience is authenticity and honesty always works best with people my age and younger, and even older. Millennials specifically really respond to keeping it real about your opinions.

I liked making people laugh. I remember that specifically, being really young and having my parents being in the audience and laughing. It wasn't really a 'Oh, I'm the center of attention' feeling; it was more 'Oh, I'm making them so happy right now' feeling. I liked that.

George was a late arrival at school and he was sort of put in my charge, and one of the immediate similarities was that we both enjoyed music - specifically Elton John.

Growing up, I was all about Jim Varney's character, Ernest P. Worrell, specifically 'Ernest Goes to Camp.' I was also obsessed with '3 Ninjas,' 'Cop and a Half' and 'Rookie of the Year.'

I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.'

I wrote my first song, called Spectator,' when I was 11.

In high school, I didn't always relate to my friends. I was more of a spectator.

There is no ageism or 'youthism' when it comes to freedom of speech. We are all citizens.

In high school, I didn't know what comedy was, but I was involved in speech and debate and public speaking.

I did my first speech when I was 17, well, my first formal speech. So I've had time to deal with it, and to adjust to it, but I can't say I'm like gung-ho on public speaking or interviews for that matter.

As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well.

I did dancing and singing when I was little, and then when I was 12 years old my friends were taking speech and drama at school. They were private lessons, and I started doing that. Over the years everyone else dropped out and I just kept going. I loved it.

One time I was doing a speech to a group of kids, and just before I get there, I see this little kid crying. I found out they just lost a game, and he was the losing pitcher. I went over there, put my arm around him, and said, 'What are you crying for? When major league players lose, they don't cry.'

The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely, there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.

Public speaking is scary, I think. I've gotten way better at it. If I have to do a speech and be like, 'I'm a YouTuber,' then that's easy, but if I have to get up there and pretend I know something in front of adults, it's never fine. In front of adults, it's like, 'Ahhhh they're going to judge me.'

I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'

When I was in high school, people would ask me what I wanted to do, and I would always say I wanted to 'lead marches and give speeches.'

I write all of my own speeches.

Some fighters had blinding speed and reflexes in their heyday but faded badly with age.

This is really a new NHL and it's built on speed and young guys.

I was always out wiping around on the farm with three-wheelers and four-wheelers. I loved the speed and the adrenaline rush that followed.

I was about 11 or 12 when I started, playing against bigger players. I would use my speed to get out of trouble.

When you are young, you might be in the wrong position, but you know you are fast, and so you can compensate with your speed.