Quotes About Youth

Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote.

I don't feel that old, but when I talk to these kids, I do feel old. Because I'm talking about taxes and all this other stuff that is very, very boring. And these guys are talking about music, and I'm like, 'Oh, I remember those days.'

Why shouldn't 16-year-olds who pay taxes and drive not be allowed to vote?

Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up.

I guess I'm lucky in that I started working very young in all three of the mediums. I started in stage first, and then I moved into film, also very young, and when I did 'Taxi,' for instance, it was live in front of an audience but also filmed; that was a fun combination.

Mum left school at 15, and after a few years of modelling and dating jazz musicians, was married by 21 to my father, Mike Taylor, a journalist on the 'Daily Mirror.' They had my brother and me pretty quickly and had split up by the time I was two. I don't really have any memories of them as a couple.

I've always been fascinated by Elizabeth Taylor, and I had read that her first kiss happened on a film set, which actually made me a little sad. You need to have normal experiences of your own.

I used to dress like Roger Taylor when I was ten because I thought he was cool. In high school, I used to dress like Stephen Perkins from Jane's Addiction because I thought he was cool. You just want to be those guys when you're that age.

For me, it was watching the New York Giants growing up, with Bill Parcells and Lawrence Taylor and that whole crew coming up through the '80s. And then, as I moved on to college, I thought I'd want to coach for sure.

I've always loved big eyes, like those of Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor. But my mother didn't allow me to wear make-up until I was 15.

People say Taylor Swift's not feminist enough or Beyonce's not feminist enough, but there are 12-year-old girls going to their shows and taking an awesome message.

When we signed Taylor Swift, people said, 'You're signing a 15-year-old female country artist? Good luck!'

Being 16 is the worst time to be anybody, there is not enough tea in China to persuade me to be that young again. I wasn't very happy with myself.

I wouldn't go back and be 25 again for all the tea in China.

I started off tagging stuff - I'm not meant to be having tea and biscuits with the prime minister.

Kids in the city can play cricket, badminton, tennis or football. Athletics is not their cup of tea.

I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

It's hard to consider myself one when a lot of my fans and people who are calling me a role model are people my age and sometimes older than me. I feel like they're at the same walk of life that I'm in right now, and they can probably teach me things about life, too.

Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

As a country, we can't teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that's - that's a disgrace.

It just seems like it would be kinda cool to be able to actually teach kids important stuff.

Our company is working with Disney to create a game for children between the ages of maybe four and 12, so we can teach them what the capitalist system is all about.

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.