Quotes About Youth

Young citizens on the verge of becoming adults deserve a real say in the world they will inherit.

In 'George Lopez', I played Veronica who's a bratty 18-year-old, and so I feel like it's much easier for me to play that because I feel like a late bloomer. It wasn't difficult or challenging at all because it's not like I haven't been a teenager.

I've been into clothes since I was a kid, going to garage raves and seeing all the Tottenham gangsters wearing Moschino and Versace; I just always had a passion for it.

When I was 15 or 16 playing in groups, we used to sit in the car and try to write the lyrics down as a song was playing, and we'd assign each person a verse, you know: 'I'm going to do the first one. You go for the second one.' And then sometimes you'd wait an hour for it to come on again so you could finish it up.

I would tell a young Jadakiss, learn the game as much as you learn how to rap, as seriously you take a 16-bar verse, take every contract and every meeting and every opportunity to listen and learn, you know what I'm saying. Keep that at a parallel.

I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.

I'm the Nickelodeon version of DangerMouse.

There is an incompatibility between being glamorous, young and a woman and using my brain. The official version is there is no discrimination, and talent dominates, but that is not the case.

Already when I was very young, I was a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew.

I had quite a bit of experience doing things that had been adapted from a book and playing real-life characters and playing the younger version of actors. That's kind of my thing.

I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.

When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz.

Oh my gosh, I'd give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it's going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I've already forgotten.

But behind the existence which falls from one present to the other, without a past, without a future, behind these sounds which decompose from day to day, peel off and slip towards death, the melody stays the same, young and firm, like a pitiless witness.

All children are mirrors of death

Vaikai ir kareiviai apie mirusius negalvoja.

Eres un mocoso a quien le cuesta pasar a la edad adulta, pero serás un hombre muy aceptable si alguien te facilita el paso.

Widzi pan, ?e ich pan nie kocha, tych dwojga. Mo?e nie potrafi?by ich pan nawet rozpozna? na ulicy. Stanowi? dla pana tylko symbole. Nie nad nimi si? pan teraz rozczula: rozczula si? pan nad M?odo?ci? Cz?owieka, nad Mi?o?ci? M??czyzny i Kobiety, mad G?osem ludzkim. -I co z tego, czy to nie istnieje? -Oczywi?cie,?e nie, to nie istnieje. Ani M?odo??, ani Wiek dojrza?y, ani Staro??, ani ?mier?...

É verdade que se pode tentar recomeçar a vida? - insiste o rapaz. Pierre e Éve entreolharam-se hesitantes e sorriem com simpatia aos jovens. - Experimentem - aconselha Pierre.

I sighed; as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.

At nineteen, I certainly didn't know the answer, although I already knew more about death than most of the other pimple-ridden pudding heads in my sophomore class at the University of Miami.

There are millions of homeless children in the world—which proved again that kids were a low-value commodity, didn't it? I mean, there are very few homeless Bentleys in the world.

lived my adolescence like a sheepdog moving through a flock of dirty, very stupid sheep.

You're too young to go to the mall," Rita said. "And anyway—" "I'm almost twelve," Astor interrupted with a hiss, making "twelve" sound like an age so advanced that it required regular geriatric care.