Quotes About Youth

My grandmother lives with my mother in a gorgeous house in the San Fernando Valley. I am afforded these luxuries, and I'm very young.

The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating.

I started riding bikes when I was really young, but I stopped when I was 19 because my mother asked me too, so I stopped riding for 35 years and now I'm just addicted. It is my only addiction...

I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.

My mother is more of an adviser. I followed everything she did when I was younger, because I looked up to her so much.

I was approaching adolescence. For some reason, I guess my mother thought it would be less crazy out in the suburbs, which it wasn't. I just think adolescence is hard for anyone.

When I first colored my hair, my mother loved it. I got kicked out of school when I was 15, just for my hair.

As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.

My mother would take me to jazz concerts in the park and everybody was smoked out. She gave me the intro and then she forced me to play an instrument to keep me out of trouble.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

Your daughter's coming of age, you ought to let her see the world a little.

My mother was an activist so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.

When my mother and I walked to the grocery store, men would circle the block in cars. It was very, very scary, especially as a young boy. Very predatory - a hunt.

I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smile at everyone who walked by. Like, 'Please take me with you!'

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.

I learned at a young age to dribble with both hands, and that allows me to be more creative when I go against bigger and stronger opponents.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.

Youth and vision make an unbeatable combination.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating. Youngsters need good models more than they need critics. It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.

There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance.