Quotes About Youth

Skateistan's not just about skating. It's giving people life skills and hope for the future.

Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.

Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word.

My favorite player is Tiger Woods. I think I can beat Tiger when I'm 20. It's a life goal.

Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

To a young heart everything is fun.

you shall above all things be glad and young For if you're young,whatever life you wear it will become you;and if you are glad whatever's living will yourself become.

While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it.

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar

On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet

God come save the youth, Ain't nothin else to do but have faith in you, Dear Lord I live the life of a Thug, hope you understand Forgive me for my mistakes, I gotta play my hand.

I come from Somalia. We start working young, and we understand that kind of life. I would be bored to death not doing anything creative.

I was really across-the-board, like a nutcase. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so I just did everything. I was even part of FHA, Future Homemakers of America. How lost was I?

I hate to say it to the kids out there but I just kind of blew off everything and made snowboarding the number one priority in my life

I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo - and I kept it all my life!

I've reached a happy stage in my life - you can call it "happy" - but I have no expectations anymore. I'm glad I'm not young anymore.

Nothing made sense to me anymore. I knew I was young, I knew I was small. But I was worried that I might already be ruined.

Good must triumph over evil. It usually does in life and in any case it's bad for young people to believe it doesn't.

When I was young, I wasn't a misfit or anything. I had friends in all the different social groups. But I had issues - just personal issues, insecurities and other things that had happened in my life.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

I think skateboarding is hugely challenging - it teaches you self-confidence, it teaches you self-motivation, and it can be something that helps you throughout your life.

I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in the corner and sleep.

When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave life threw at me.