Quotes About Youth

It was tough because I was on the road so much, on top of everything. I went through what every girl goes through emotionally in life, going through high school. It wasn't easy.

I don't think there is enough youth employment or enough push for youths to kind of do want they want to do.

It's empowering to know I am doing something, I am taking a stand, I am disrupting.

I think I'm fascinated with empowering the shy kids.

I don't know what it is that I love so much about high school, but I'm attached. The empty hallways. The teachers. They made me feel so much.

My father loved to play the game, he never became a professional but when he was younger everyone would say he was good enough and when I heard people talking about him, I wanted to emulate him. So I started to play.

We did a thing that we would call we call 'hirstories.' H - I - R - S - T - O - R - Y. I would enact a young Mort. And that always felt - it was so funny - it felt more difficult than playing Maura.

Personally, I never had any negative encounters with the law growing up.

I really don't want to encourage young people to think that life is about money only. Life is about being able to give yourself choice.

Don't encourage 8th-, 9th- and 10th-graders to forgo education just to go to the G League.

It's important for schools to encourage sports.

And I would really like to encourage First Nations youth to be leaders in their communities.

I was a kid with a lot of dreams. And my parents encouraged me in every possible way.

I had a coach when I was younger who encouraged me to be myself, that is where I was lucky.

Children aren't being taught to cook or encouraged to try things or told why food is important.

We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

Young people need a boosting up really, a bit more encouraging and less looking down on them.

No one's up in arms about these PG-13 movies where it's literally about the end of the world.

I was a very emotional teenager. But I wish that I could tell myself that I matter more than I think. Things are a bigger deal than I think they are, but they're also not as big a deal as I think they are. My mistakes are not the end of the world.

It feels like it's the end of the world if you don't do well on your SATs.

When you're young, every game and every situation it seems like it's the end of the world sometimes when it's not working.

I've lived on my own since 17, and when I found I wasn't working all the time, I ended up starting a small theatre company called Red One Theatre.

I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy.

I was very engaged in my communities throughout college, but I never thought of it as political.