Quotes About Youth

My family has always called me 'Lay Lay,' and my dad used to always call me 'Dynamite Termite' because I was really short and small and I hated to be still. I would never stop.

The best thing to do is to behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen and under try not to go bald.

In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.

The only artists for whom I would make way are - children. For me the paintings of children belong side by side with the works of the masters.

Youth I Stay close to the young and a little rubs off.

Remember no matter how many candles you blow out this year there's one gal who will always think of you as young strong and handsome - your mother.

A scout is a boy who dresses like a schmuck. A scoutmaster is a schmuck who dresses like a boy.

Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.

The Jewish man with parents still alive is a fifteen-year-old boy and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die.

I loved to do sports when I was young. We were on a family holiday and went sailing. I just loved it. And there, you can say, life began to change for me.

I'm a late riser by my family's standards. Sleeping is a luxury because since I was young, I woke up very early to go ice-skating. So I'm really not a morning girl.

I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger... secretly, in my room.

Just when you think you should start accepting that you're becoming an adult, all your childhood fantasies come true.

It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart's Desire.

If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.

Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.

It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

Fantasy is literature for teenagers.

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

I was tall from minute one. Always the tallest kid by a large margin. And my fantasy was to take up less space in the world.

When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

Once upon a time, there had been a seventeen-year-old assassin who had never let anyone get closer to her. Then, with the turning of a page, her story changed forever.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.