Quotes About Youth

Funnily enough, when I was leaving school and they asked you what you were going to do, and I just liked acting, that's never what I would say. I would always say I would go into business, even though I didn't really know what was meant by that.

I grew up just as my friends did until 19 before leaving home, and it's because of that I am who I am now.

When LeBron came into the league, I was 9 years old. So I grew up watching him play.

I used to watch LeBron on TV growing up, and now I'm playing my first game against him.

Since 'The Overachievers' came out, I've been doing a lot of lectures and talking to kids across the country.

I know Jonny Howson well because he's a Leeds boy.

I was born in Leeds, grew up in Bridlington.

When I was a kid it was my dream to play for Leeds, and I did that.

At the age of 16, I left Australia to go to Bolton.

Michael Irvin, he's definitely a legend, but I don't know if some of the guys my age and younger really know about him.

The league is getting bigger; the names are getting bigger. The league is getting younger and I really think it has some legs to it.

I just feel like the songs I write lend themselves to this girl-power feeling, and those are the artists that I looked up to when I was younger.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.

Kids in sports - it makes such an impact in life with the lessons that you learn.

My boys asked me to write beautiful letters for their ex-girls so they could get them back. I thought, 'I should be writing songs for myself.'

My parents were young and liberal and knew I was going to drink anyway, so they let me do it at home.

I know that when I was a children's librarian, that was about 1940, boys particularly asked where were the books about kids like us, and there weren't any at that time.

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.

Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.

It wasn't that long ago that I was coming up, but it feels almost ancient that you had to go to the library and you had 'World Book Encyclopedias.'

I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.

The day after I had my licence to drive, I made Paris/Nice at 230 km/hour.

Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better.