Quotes About Youth

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

I make mistakes growing up. I'm not perfect; I'm not a robot.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

I had a bad background just growing up as a child.

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get older. I'm going to start making my house look like this.

I didn't know how to dance, so I just jumped up and down and bashed people. Then everybody else started doin' it, but they didn't get it right, so I quit.

It is a long time now since I started running but I still remember running up and down hills and running to school as a kid. When I was young I would run for fun and I didn't know back then that this would be my career.

My dad was running up and down stairs at 85; my granddad lived until 96, and married a much younger woman at 86.

One of my first memories is running up and down the theatre at Wakefield Opera House.

I was an energetic child, always walking on my hands, flipping off of the back of the couch, or jumping up and down on my bed.

One thing I would like to see is a stronger ladder series for up-and-coming American drivers.

I'm all about giving up-and-coming people a chance.

Whether you play or whether you're on the bench, or however it may be, at some point in your career you will be one of those three roles. You will either be a young, up-and-coming goalkeeper watching the experienced one, you'll either be on the bench or you'll be in goal yourself.

I love seeing the up-and-coming athletes finding success.

I'm glad that I had the upbringing I did where I was just part of what everyone else was a part of. And prom and all that.

The majority of NBA players' upbringing, there's not much financial education.

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base.

I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.

My neighborhood was normal. I had a neighborhood where everyone knew everyone. Typical American upbringing. Sometimes we got into trouble, but everyone watched after each other, so if my parents didn't see me making trouble, another family would tell them.

I spent my whole upbringing in sporting camps. I didn't do cotillion.

I had a totally different upbringing, totally different background, raised in Germany, small town, now I am in London taking care of 180 kids who think they are the one percent who can make it in professional football.

I had a really lovely upbringing. I did a lot of skateboarding down country lanes.