Quotes About Youth

My dad saw it as a goal before I did, when I was 12 years old. I didn't think competing in Olympics was possible until I was 16.

I enjoyed watching 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' very much. Many such sports films should be made so that the upcoming generation draws inspiration from the sportspersons of our country, win medals at the Olympics and Asian Games, and make India proud.

From the time I started boxing, my dream was to win an Olympic gold medal. At 10, I can't say I knew how big the Olympics are. I just knew that every kid in the gym wanted to win an Olympic gold medal. Every kid in every gym probably wants to win an Olympic gold medal.

As a child, I always had a dream to make it to the Olympics.

One of the hard things in my life has been balancing my education with my acting career, because I've been acting since the age of seven, on and off, just doing little parts and things. I've always been very keen to stay in school.

I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.

I moved to Hawaii when I was fourteen. And I was there for a year and then I was just sort of on and off after that, just because I had friends and family there.

I've been in Glasgow since I was 18, on and off.

It is so important for young people to see characters with different mental health challenges on-screen.

I was the future once.

I think music should be the basis of an education, not just something you do once a week.

Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts.

It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore.

I know one day I'll be considered too old.

I was modeling with an agency in New York and a manager with the agency introduced himself to me one day and he said he had auditions for someone my age. He asked if I would be interested in doing some.

Growing up I felt like my nose was big. I was always like, 'I'm going to get a nose job one day'. I'm glad I didn't.

It's unequivocal: everyplace I go, the one line I can use in a speech that I know will get applause is when I say it's time for a new generation of leadership in our party.

I would rather have one minute at this age than a month at 21.

My kids don't think, for one minute, about where people are born, what language they speak, what colour they are. There's an innocence about young people that is only influenced by older people.

One minute, you're 18, 19. The next minute, you're 33.

One of the things I wanted to do with my own books was bridge the gap between 'Goosebumps' and adult horror.

One of the things I loved about my childhood was that I didn't feel like I lost my innocence too young, like some children these days.

One of the things I learned very early on is you need to cast the kids for the characters you want them to play. They need to be who they are, right? If you want a loud, boisterous kid character, you need to find that kid.

I remember the one time, when I was in the 10th grade and the school president, my entire school had surprised me with a birthday song during the morning assembly. It will always be a very special memory!