Quotes About Youth

In L.A., retro culture is just part of the thing you do. When we were kids, we didn't have allowances, and it was not cool to wear designer clothes. So it meant that we were into 1920s dresses when we were 13.

I would like to design what people generally call streetwear. I'd like to dress skateboarders, or whatever the older equivalent of skateboarders are. I pay more attention to that stuff than anyone would ever imagine because I'm watching what the designers do.

My friends are not in the industry - they're young artists or knitwear designers or whatever.

As a small kid, I had this huge desire to be thought of as really clever.

I'm as desperate as anyone for there to be a DACA deal, for there to a deal on DREAMers.

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

When I was a kid, I desperately wanted more background information on especially cartoonists.

Despite football being my job, it's also good fun and it's a way that children enjoy themselves.

Being born at the tag-end of the baby boom, I was destined (or doomed, depending on how you look at it) to fall in love with sci-fi. It was one of my first literary loves, as a matter of fact.

I was always just an ambitious kid from early. I always knew that I had a purpose and I was destined for something big, great.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

Our nation needs to say clearly once again that using drugs will destroy your life.

We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.

Often, especially young artists, you feel like you should be doing something. And I think that can be very destructive because creativity is about connecting with the stuff that's deep inside you and making something out of that.

If we got writing assignments in English class to make up a story, that was when the glimmer of creativity popped out. That was way more interesting to me than writing down my life details.

I wanted to be an actor when I was young, and I wanted to be a detective.

I was in detention a lot.

I was quite capable at school, but I spent a lot of time in detention.

I first heard Pantera after getting out of a detention center as a kid.

I wasn't a very well-behaved girl. I was often in detention for impertinence.

When you look at youth, they want to aspire to somebody. You can see that with him you have to work hard, and that's what you bring if you have someone like Ronaldo who embodies hard work and determination.

Our young people are some of the most dynamic and determined in the world.

As a kid from Detroit, I played whatever sport was in season: football, basketball, wrestling, whatever it was. I was an active kid.

I care about the children of Detroit.