Quotes About Youth

I learned from Al Davis. We didn't have any secretaries. Secretaries, really, in Oakland were young football people.

When I was 12, I didn't know about Nirvana or Oasis or any of those people. I was listening to Ella Fitzgerald and Gershwin.

I liked bands like Oasis and The Prodigy.

I worked behind the record counter at Woolworths when I was 16. It was when Oasis' 'Definitely Maybe' came out and The Verve were getting big. I'd have probably worked my way up to store manager if I'd have stuck around.

In 1995, I was 27, and I completely got caught up in Blur and Oasis and the fashion of the time.

I've long admired Michelle Obama's devotion to encouraging fitness for children.

The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.

Let's face it, we really did need something like this in this country to fight childhood obesity.

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

Always, you have these objectives when you are young. You think you can be the best, and that's what I have to be because, if not, I'm not playing football.

When I was 22 years old, and I first got to Nashville, women or girls were objects. It was a conquest. My emptiness inside and the external manifestation of my ego was to somehow conquer women.

I was the kid who was sat in his room, trying to move objects across the room with my eyes or my mind.

I couldn't live without Radio 1. They condemned me to oblivion, but they're what I grew up with.

I... remember taking all kinds of risks and at the time being oblivious to danger and really thinking back then how I could really do anything that I wanted.

The 20-year-old version of me had all this energy, and wanted to be obnoxious with his art and wanted to communicate even though he didn't know what he wanted to communicate.

I heard people saying they were going to become millionaires by the time they were 25 - that's gross and obnoxious, but in California it's looked on as an asset.

I was kind of an obnoxious kid. I would imitate Celine Dion. I would jump around and belt to the rafters and do the accent and everything.

It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.

I was only 18 when I made 'A Taste Of Honey' in the city of Salford, where writer, Shelagh Delaney set it. She was about 19 when she wrote the play based on her experiences of life and what she observed in her community.

Young people are often ignored and disregarded, but they are acute observers and learners of everything we say and do.

Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.

When I turned 14, I became very obsessed with writing songs, and it took over my existence.

I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books.

We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.