Quotes About Youth

Rachel Bilson, Nicole Richie, Vanessa Hudgens... so many of my idols growing up were Bongo girls.

Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.

While 'The Middle' is still funny for adults to watch, there aren't sex jokes. And I'm fine with that. I like the idea that my nieces and nephews can watch it without their parents.

I mean I've seen so many kids on the street when we're like in the bus, they're screaming 'go Nigeria, go Nigeria,' so to represent them I'm just proud.

I was born in Owerri and grew up in the east of Nigeria, in Imo state. You could say I was a 'street boy': we grew up on the street, played on the street, did everything out on the street. It was a difficult life altogether, but that's how we grew up.

I played for England Under-16s, 17s, 18s, 19s, 20s and then 21s... then... I just decided to make the decision to play for Nigeria.

My earliest sporting memory is probably going judo when I was about 6 or 7 years old. My dad and my brother did it for a couple of years when I was young, in Nigeria.

Whenever I go back home to Nigeria now, I always bring a bag full of Manchester City shirts for the kids.

Wilf is a great passer of the ball. I know him and I played with him from the Under-17s team with Nigeria, so he's a very good passer.

If I had the opportunity, I will ask every Nigerian kid to start his career in Germany. The structure they have in the Bundesliga is far from what is obtainable in other leagues.

I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

It was when I met everybody on 'The Perfect Score' that, like, nightclubs became a thing.

When I was in nightclubs, I thought they were a really important way for young people who come to New York to meet people and connect.

I worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler.

I can only imagine there still have to be nightclubs where 21-year-olds go.

When I was younger I would often go to nightclubs and sit in the best-lit corner to look at what people chose to wear, or I'd go out and around the city - to places where people express their sense of what they think looks good. So, I get a sense of that, and then I try to interpret it.

I was every mother's nightmare - I was a hair model from 14, and I started coming home with red, blue, green hair.

When I did '3 Nights,' it was just one of those days where we'd gotten enough sleep, enough food, and we were excited.

I've used Nike clubs since I was 13.

The first play that I saw was 'Cyrano,' and I remember going home - I was like nine years old - and trying to learn the monologues.

When I was really young, I loved the movie 'White Christmas' - I still do - and I thought Rosemary Clooney was so pretty. When I was, like, nine, I would tell people, 'You know who I kind of look like? Rosemary Clooney.'

There was no freer soul in the world than me at age nine.

You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.

I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities.