Quotes About Youth

There was not much money around, but my sister and I were happy. All the sports facilities were 10 minutes' walk from my house and the school system was very good.

If you want to improve the football, of course you need to put attention on the academy, on the school, the facility.

At 16, I was facing 11 life felonies.

Age doesn't mean anything. Age doesn't mean I can't work as hard. Age doesn't mean I can't do as well as everyone else. It's just a factor. It's just there.

Age is never a factor if talent is there.

Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.

When you see the kids on 'Britain's Got Talent' or 'The X Factor' who just want to be famous at all costs, you just go, 'God, these people just don't know what it is they're asking for.'

If I wanted to be a professional baseball player at some point, I knew I would have to do the jump ASAP because unfortunately age is a huge factor.

If you get someone right out of college - and I meet a lot of them - you're not going to get a lot of experience at all, so you have to feel the ambition and desire, which is based on a lot of factors.

When I left school at 14, I thought I had better get a job. I got one in a factory where I sewed on buttons. It was so boring and we weren't allowed to talk or sing. I lasted a day.

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.

No, I don't think rock 'n' roll will ever fade.

When I was growing up, all my cousins had high-top fades. I thought it would be cool to see how long I could grow a high-top.

All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it was Little League. It meant a lot to you.

I always wanted to play with the older kids because they were better and it was more fun. It was harder, and I failed more, but it was more fun.

You never know what they're going through. Maybe they failed a test. Maybe they're going through a state of depression. Kids go through so much.

Family issues and a failing career would be enough to consume most young actresses.

And she was fair as is the rose in May.

To give every child a fair chance to succeed, we need to give them the best possible start in life. For far too many that isn't happening.

I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to other people's songs that I heard on the radio and take whatever song and make it about fairies and angels - whatever little girls sing about.

I was fairly young when we moved to Santa Fe, but it wasn't long after that I started to figure out who I was, and that entire process took place in this city.

I'm read in the Caribbean with justice, with fairness. What I expect it to do is to encourage articulacy in the young.

Kids deserve to be taken seriously. It's just as important to talk to them about women's equality, about fairness. We really have to focus on children early.

I was brought up by parents who embraced the 1960s and taught me that being faithful isn't the be-all and end-all.