Quotes About Youth

Every time a young driver comes into F1, the finger's pointed at him over his age. I don't think that's right.

Anyone who's had a finger pointed at them and been told they're pretty or attractive, there's a power that comes with that. But beauty for a woman becomes cumbersome because it's always being equated with youth.

Chicago is a big town for magicians and card hustlers. So when I was very young, a fellow sat me down and taught me the Three-Card Monte. And that kind of put me in a - pointed me towards easy money.

If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

I was born in the '50s - 1951. So I grew up during that part of the '50s when everything was supposed to be at its best in America, they claimed, and then eased into the '60s.

I grew up listening to a lot of Snoop Dogg and the Wu-Tang Clan. Actually, I was a huge Wu-Tang fan.

I skipped class a lot.

I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes.

I began acting when I was very young, maybe 5 or so? Just by going to acting classes and that sort of thing.

I never could make it to morning classes. I never felt like I needed to do it. I remember being in class, and saying, I don't care about this, I don't need to know this.'

'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material - and after that, you're not sure what you can do.

Kids like classic rock, and so do adults.

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

When I was 16, I felt I might be left with some effeminacy because of all the dancing. I was so full of classical dance that I wanted to get away and do something else.

I love classical music. Yes, I was in a conservatory when I was younger and played guitar and all that stuff, so I also love rock.

Any form of classical music is made for youth.

We don't teach kids how to think anymore. We're getting rid of the classics - high school is all about self-esteem.

When I left high school - I was younger than my classmates, just 17 - I knew I wanted to be an actress, but I thought, 'When I go to college, I'd rather study something else.'

I want to help establish opportunities for at-risk kids to have the same opportunities in and outside of the classroom as everyone else.

I was the only kid reading guitar magazines at the back of the classroom.

I remember really loving the CoverGirl ads when I was younger - there was something very cool about how they always put the girls in white. It looked so clean.

Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.

I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.