Quotes About Youth

When you're young, you think life is forever, but it's finite. I'm 68, so even by the maddest measurements, I'm in the last bit of life.

My favourite team was always Barcelona. When I was young, I went to see them, my first ever big game. Jari Litmanen was playing there at the time. In Finland, Litmanen is a big hero for all of us.

I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!

I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.

To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicago's second city of garages was my young life's passion.

I get all fired up about aging in America.

Growing up in Arizona, I love fireworks, shooting off bottle rockets and M80s.

I got married at 20, and I was not a real mature 20. My first child was born when I was 21.

I had my first child at 21, my first restaurant at 24.

I'm your regular Gen-Xer - married at 22, had my first child at 23 and my second at 26.

I was a lifeguard for three years, when I was around 16-years-old. So for my first job, that was awesome, working on the beach.

At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.

My first job paid well for a young attorney. I was making over $50,000, which was more than either of my parents had ever made. I thought I was rich.

My first job was an AFI short film, 'Chasing Daylight,' when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.

My first job ever was at Baskin-Robbins when I was 14, which is probably the closest I'll ever come to having a corporate job like the one I play on TV - although I do work for Universal, so I suppose that's corporate.

I've been pretty lucky in general but when I was a teenager the first job I ever got was working at a store very similar to Cloud 9. It was a Canadian chain similar to a Kmart.

A first love is something that lasts forever in your heart. It's something that marks you.

Emilio Estevez was definitely my first love.

I used to do a little acting in school. It was my first love, and I really thought I would be doing it as a career. I really wanted to complete that part of my ambition.

If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.

Ivan Turgenev's novella 'First Love' is one of the most perfect things ever written.

For a lot of people going through their first love, you're both still figuring yourself out.

When we grow up, we tend to forget our first crush, first love, as we move along. Only when you see something on TV or hear someone say something do you go back to those moments.

Kids will tell me 'oh I want to be like you when I grow up,' you know. I just thought 'nah, don't be like me, be like you,' because first of all they don't really know me but second of all I understand what they're trying to say but I just let them know - be like you.