Quotes About Youth

Development has to start from the base; the kids need to be playing, and the institutions have to come forward. There needs to be focus on grassroots.

I want to set up a music school for the needy who cannot afford musical education so that they can realize their dreams.

People are so involved with immediate care, but at the same time there needs to be investment in educating people as adolescents when they're still HIV negative.

When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, I felt like I had seen it all and done it all, and I was really kind of negative about everything.

America, in all its institutions, whether it be the family or government, has forgotten and neglected its children.

You start learning English in fifth grade. I was 12. But even before then I was listening to American music. My neighbor was a really big hip-hop fan, so he taught me everything around hip-hop.

It was endlessly entertaining, watching people beat each other up. All the little kids in the neighborhood would come and watch... and then we'd beat them up as well.

Growing up in the mid-to-late '90s in London, you start seeing the explosion of drum'n'bass and then the birth of U.K. garage and grime. I decided to focus a lot of my energies as an aspiring MC. It was a very natural way to express yourself as a kid from a certain kind of neighborhood.

I grew up in New York, in a rough neighborhood where our biggest concern was not getting beat up. I was always far from the center of the Big Apple.

The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.

Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school.

Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.

When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.

I lived in a bad neighborhood. I knew so many things a boy shouldn't know. I did so many things a boy shouldn't do.

I wasn't known as a neighborhood tough or anything like that. But yeah, I was, like, a scrappy kid. You know, I kind of kept to myself, you know?

I was the kid in the neighborhood that was directing everyone else. I was director from the time I was a child.

I definitely feel like you have an influence. I'm 21 years old, and I'm thinking about the kids that are from my neighborhood, from my community, that are looking up to me and seeing me handle myself a certain way, so I do feel a responsibility in that sense to handle myself a certain way in front of those guys.

When I grew up, I lived in a neighborhood that had social clubs. It's never delightful to glamorize one's youth. My neighborhood was poor. But people felt part of the neighborhood. This was in Rockaway Beach, Long Island.

I grew up a few years after John Kelly in an identical neighborhood in the other side of Boston and I went to high school in John Kelly's neighborhood. I know the neighborhood John Kelly comes from, I know the culture.

I grew up in a decently tough neighborhood.

When I gradually realized the emotion behind it, I began playing cricket in our neighborhood, which I think everyone has.

In our neighborhood we used to hold major football sessions that went on until it got dark, with everyone playing against each other.

Baton Rouge is small, so when somebody like me blowup, who they used to chase around the neighborhood, who was a wild little kid, that affects people.

I grew up in the streets in Boston in a row-home neighborhood playing hockey.