Quotes About Youth

When I was five or six, I asked to sing at a big family party, and ever since I got up there in front of everyone in my suit - it had a blue collar, like in 'Scarface' - I had the bug.

Those who love the young best stay young longer.

Well Bill Martin and Mike Schiff were the creators and they knew we had to do a family show. Everybody came at it from the angle of having been a kid and a teenager.

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.

What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys.

I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.

I've always like roadracing, but you know how it is in a family when you're young. They thought it was a little too dangerous so I started with Trials riding.

The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.

I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.

Look forward to the wonderment of growing up, raising a family and driving by the gas station where the popular kids now work.

My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.

I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention.

Oh, my family lived in 21 places before I was 17.

I'm the youngest of 12 children. And although I was the youngest, I tried to organize things in my family. When there were disputes, I tried to mediate.

It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts.

My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.

From a very young age, I was singing and acting and performing for my family.

My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways.

When you are young nothing is more important than football but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.

Even as a child, I told my whole family how to improve their looks.

It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least coincident with the relaxation of older family ties.

At 13 you're not even thinking about that, you know? I was just playing for fun and uploading videos on YouTube because I wanted to show my family.

John F. Kennedy brought style and charisma to the White House and a first family that captivated the country: a handsome, witty president, an elegant first lady, and two adorable young children.