Quotes About Youth

I have been wearing Air Max for so long, since I was seven playing around in the estate; I feel like I know my Air Max well.

I have a picture on my phone of me and Audra McDonald from when I went stage door-ing at 'Ragtime' in high school. I always keep it there because I try to remember how important that was to me.

There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

When youth live in fear of becoming who they are, as adults, they can't become the creative beings that we are meant to be on this planet.

I have grown up being a father. When my first son was born I was 17. I was a child bringing up a child. I was not capable of understanding what a dad was meant to be.

I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.

I don't think you sit there as a young boy thinking you want a full set of medals, you just want to achieve something.

I definitely want to help the youth, people who can't afford medicine.

My limited theater experience was when I was a kid starting out: two or three plays. I was good in one and mediocre in the other. My problem is that I have other interests.

Television is a young person's medium.

I would hate to meet myself at 15.

At 16, I was more resilient and easygoing than I am now.

Kids have this resistance to listening to adults and authority, period.

The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.

I feel like, if I'm going to have young, impressionable people listening to my music, then I'm going to respect that.

When I was 15, I became an avid fan of Andres Segovia. He brought so much respectability to the guitar.

I was a fan of Belle and Sebastian. I didn't really know a lot of their music - I only knew the kind of bigger songs because I had a friend, when I was younger, who was really into them. But I have always really respected Belle and Sebastian for what they are, what they do. Yeah, they're just great.

Grime music is still a young culture in itself. And my goal is to move it on to a more respected place.

Young people may be stupid at times, but they respond to the truth when it is present, and for them, KRS-One is the truth!

I believe young people need rules. They will respond to discipline.

Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.

From the time I was very young, I was a professional, making money and assuming responsibilities. I didn't live the life of a child. I was living the life of a 30-year-old.

I have a lot more responsibilities, I guess you could say. I have a lot more responsibilities than a lot of people my age.

Athletes know kids look up to them, and it's important for athletes to be responsible.