Quotes About Youth

Nobody wants to see the old person at the club.

There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.

We don't nod along as children go through adolescent decisions.

Director Lee Chang-dong's 1997 noir 'Green Fish.' I was attending middle school when I first watched the piece. And although I could not completely understand the film and where it was getting at, I still found it extremely powerful.

A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.

I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.

For the young generation, when they see that there is a film director from Cambodia to go on to be nominated, for them, a lot can change. I don't know another way to restore our identity if it's not art.

My first Grammy nomination? I was 24 - I was nominated for best new artist of the year.

I moved to New York City when I was 20 years old, started making movies non-stop. I didn't have any friends, so I would just sit at home all night editing on my iMac.

The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.

We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.

No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.

The idea that it's only the young or people who've grown up with a technology who can appreciate it. Complete nonsense!

The good thing about kids is they want to be mobile; they want to be running around nonstop. They want to play. They want to be outside. So they're inherently more active than we are, because we get much lazier as we get older. Part of being a parent is keeping up with your kid.

With 'Dope Walk,' I wanted to bring back kids dancing and having fun again. That's how it used to be in Harlem. I remember everybody Harlem-shaking and 'Chicken Noodle Soup'-ing. Those were some of the most fun and memorable times in my life.

Your first love is your first love. It cannot be analysed, explained, nor forgotten.

When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.

When young people grow up with fear as the norm, they don't have the luxury to dream.

You start going to games when you're younger but you think it's the norm that every football club in the world has that many fans, but as you get older you realise they don't! And you realise just how big a club Newcastle is.

My biggest concern for the country is that many kids are now just looking at their parents who've lived on benefit and think that's the norm. It's so sad.

I was brought up as a normal kid.

I was a normal American nerd.