Quotes About Youth

So many kids nowadays, it's almost like they go through this Disney training where they're taught to be cute and play it up for the camera, and they're trying to get laughs.

I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.

I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could!

Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.

I'm going to fight every day to make sure the kids growing up in communities like the one I grew up in or rural communities have access to the American Dream because nowhere else - nowhere else on the planet is my story even possible.

Age is just a number for me! A person is as young as he feels.

Count the dreams of your mind; if the numbers of the dreams exceeds the number of achievements, you are young.

I was a class clown; the nuns didn't like that.

My first club was FT Gern. I joined through my parents and friends. My father played for them and a friend from nursery school took me to training once. I was five at the time.

There are so many instances where kids who have talent and intellect have to navigate the world of low expectations and resources. We have to nurture those gifts more.

I went to middle school and high school, and my drama teacher, Ms. Cooper, basically nurtured me. It was always a part of my life, and my parents allowed it to be.

The child in each of us must be nurtured - that often makes us the best.

I'd love to open up sessions at a Boys and Girls Club or something where kids can learn nutrition and how to exercise in a fun way. Especially for young guys. I'd love to be an inspiration.

Nutrition isn't the only problem; our children also aren't getting enough exercise.

I was always an introvert as a kid. Then, when I first kind of came out as a human being, I used to be one of those guys who'd go nuts on the dance floor, and people would gather around.

I lived crazy really young. So now I don't need to go out and get nuts.

I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America.

I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.

It really was... my life was not my own, put it that way. It was fun, I was only 19 at the time but it was crazy, it was really, really crazy and people camped outside my parents' house and it was a nutty time, really crazy and I'm glad I don't have that right now.

I remember Jerry Lewis said once that when small, he was the nutty kid in his neighborhood and I was the same way.

When I talk about the early years in Oakland, I don't want to take anything away from who that player was, because that player was still a heck of a player, that player was just young. I played off the field the same way that I played on the field.

I moved to L.A., and I lived in the Oakland Apartments, which is this notorious hub for actor children and their stage moms. For the first few years that I lived there, Hilary Duff and Frankie Muniz frequented the apartments. I was much younger than them at the time.

I grew up in L.A., I moved to Oakland when I was 14.

Oakland kids are always the best.