Quotes About Youth

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day.

Rock and roll is here to stay.

I earlier used to stay in Virar, and I was coached by Santosh Pingulkar.

Follow your deepest dream, the one you had as a kid... but stay focused.

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!

I remember when I was very young, I had a fever - a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And in the days, I stayed alone with the maid. I only had my father's books with me. They were fantasy books about ghosts, and also books by Edgar Allen Poe that made a forever impression on me.

Growing up in Terre Haute, Indiana, there's not a whole lot to do. What I did was I just went to the basketball court at the Boys & Girls Club and literally stayed there all day until my mom got off of work.

If I'd stayed at home I'd have married as a virgin. But, in the heady post-war years, I fell in love all the time.

When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.

When I was 19 years old, I quit football completely. For about a month, I stayed at home in a depression. This was in the summer of 2008.

When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because the first impressions were so powerful they have stayed with me.

When I was 11 years old, my mother bought me one of those chemistry sets, and I stayed with it.

A lot of stuff people said to me when I was younger subconsciously stayed with me and became my biggest insecurities.

When I went to San Francisco in that cold late spring of 1967, I did not even know what I wanted to find out, and so I just stayed around a while and made a few friends.

After graduating from high school, even though I was working, I didn't have enough money to pay rent, so I stayed with my Nana.

The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me.

I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.

I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really. But also, for me, from the time I was, like, 10 years old, all I ever wanted to do was be in a band and make music.

I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I could have stayed in college and still recorded. Isn't that something? The kids of today are doing it.

For the most part, I've stayed as far away as possible from high school movies. I just don't find them to be that relatable to everybody? They become like this: 'Look at that period of time. Isn't that interesting?'

I remember when I was 11 playing against guys who were as old as 22. I just stayed outside and shot from there.

We all fled from religion. Living la vida loca, whatever. The '60s, you know. But it always stayed in my heart. As I got older, I started coming back to religion.

I've stayed friends with the boys I've known since I was 10.