Quotes About Youth

I wanted to get on with my life when I was 16. I knew I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to get out of Detroit.

When I was 12, I was told I couldn't play with the boys anymore, and I was devastated.

That was devastating to me: how a bright, energetic kid could turn doomed and desperate.

I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young.

Some of our developers are starting to make $20,000 a month, which is really significant... We're getting developers who are 14 and 20 years of age making more money than their parents, starting to make a professional career of developing games on Roblox.

I spent the better part of my developing years in Massachusetts.

It's about getting experience and developing. The best way to do that is to go out on loan to play first-team football.

Luckily, I feel like I was a late bloomer as far as my body developing. I really didn't start developing until I was like 18, 19, 20 years old.

I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day. I like going out, but you have to know when you can and when you can't.

For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids.

I was an athlete when I was young and devoted a lot of time to sports.

One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?

I have been diabetic since I was young.

It's hard enough as a kid these days to feel normal and just try to fit in. To be a diabetic is just a dramatic thing to go through.

I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast cancer.

If I'm diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.

I was diagnosed with diabetes at age 18. I didn't know what it was, so I went to the library and looked it up.

When I look at my earlier work, I often wonder why I acted like that, why I wore that dress, why I said that dialogue... Why couldn't I do it better? I realized I was too young then and not confident.

I wrote my first song when I was about eight. It was about putting a diaper on a chicken!

My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.

I always wanted to have a diary growing up but was too lazy to commit to one.

When you've got money to spend, it's very easy to buy someone worth £50m rather than say, 'I'm going to play this 20-year-old English player.' It's easier to buy someone when you have the money to do it. But at the same time, if you give somebody an opportunity, you never know. You can only roll the dice and see how they perform.

The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.