Quotes About Youth

We've got to do a better job with our kids. Teach good values, teach the fundamentals.

You know you're getting old when kids start to dress like you used to and movies are made about your teen life.

In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think about the world, and to think about the universe as being a part of my conscious everyday life.

When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you find it - I found it again - that's where you can draw from. That's where you draw your strength from.

Even if you have a bad game, you have to swallow your pride and sign. It takes a little time, but it makes the kids happy. And it makes you feel good, too.

And, I think, as a kid, I had a strong motivation to do something of my life. And, I think that's the strongest motivation I really got. And, that came obviously from my parents and my grandparents

When we stage the Olympics it will inspire kids all over the country. A kid in Scotland or Ireland will be encouraged to take up sport.

It's not a matter of how old you are, it's how you feel.

There seems to be a direct correlation between the spike in suicides by young people and the increase in cyberbullying amongst young people.

Most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes.

When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

I watched a lot of movies when I was younger and I remember, when I was seven years old, I asked my parents if I could have an agent for Christmas.

People love teen movies because everyone can relate.

I grew up with a very romantic, idealized vision of New York, probably because of all the books I read and the movies I watched.

Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.

I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

Once I fix what kids watch, I'll be moving on to everything else.

I didn't start smoking weed till my junior year. I had a boyfriend who smoked a lot, and I was like, "Oh, I guess I'm moving on to this phase of life." I didn't fight it at all.

Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime

Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.

When I was a kid, I was told rock n' roll wasn't music. It wasn't art. Queen was my proof, my evidence, that these people were wrong - and they meant everything to me.

I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.